Word: lures
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...movement that pays so much homage to purity and anticommercialism is bound to be divided by charges of hypocrisy, especially when the lure of big bucks is at hand. The movement now finds itself drifting from the ideals that gave it birth: to express anti-Establishment ideas and make music for misfits. "It appealed to me and my friends because our generation is so dead to the world. There's nothing waiting for us when we get out of school," says Bonnie O'Shea, 21, a student disc jockey at the State University of New York at Oneonta. But when...
Obama cautiously sits on his lead while McCain rejiggers his staff for a fresh start. Meanwhile, Democratic errors lure the GOP into debating character questions when McCain wants to focus on policy. Week ends in a muddle...
...Efforts to force Hasina and Zia into the type of exile imposed upon Pakistan's late former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, proved abortive. (Hasina, however, was released to much acclaim on parole on June 11 to seek medical treatment in the U.S.) Also unsuccessful have been attempts to lure away party stalwarts. Given the aura of their pedigreed leaders, the two parties still command a vast following among Bangladesh's population - a combined 80% by most estimates - and the length of the two begums' detention has drawn the ire of millions. As elsewhere in impoverished South Asia, populist dynasties hold...
...Spin Your Wheels Forget the car and locomote by other means. Get kids rolling on bikes, scooters, Rollerblades or skateboards. Need a birthday idea? A new set of wheels can be the perfect way to lure kids off the couch...
...Mutko, who heads the country's top football league and its football federation. And the largesse isn't flowing exclusively to the pro game: Abramovich contributes $55 million each year to Russia's fledgling youth development system. The London exile also paid the $2.65 million two-year contract to lure Dutch coach Guus Hiddink to Russia, hoping that he would work the same miracle with the national squad that he did during stints with South Korea and Australia...