Word: luring
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...Laden's network also makes it much harder to penetrate than previous terrorist groups. Many of the countries in which it operates have less than adequate police and intelligence services to provide assistance. It is imbued with a messianic ideology that makes it relatively immune to the lure of cash, the counterspy's usual inducement...
...besides the caloric lure of refreshments, author events offer enticements to all parties involved. Many poets, wanting to share their work with a wider audience, will contact Louisa Solano, president of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. According to Sheri Sable, marketing director for the Harvard Book Store, authors participate in readings because reading in front of an audience tends to generate interest in and awareness about a newly published book. Jona Newhall, events coordinator for WordsWorth books, adds that book tours are a major part of the publishing industry...
...returned to that Southeast Asian country in 1997 as Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador. Fans tout Peterson as a Democratic John McCain; detractors say he is McCain without the charisma. But Nelson and Florida's senior Senator, Bob Graham, sent top Democratic fund raisers to Hanoi last spring to lure Peterson home. As he and his Vietnamese wife Vi Le were packing in May, Reno broke the blind-siding news that she too might run--setting up a potential north-south rift that could weaken the Democrats as they prepare to battle Bush...
...staging Brooks' The Producers. It's not hard to see what attracted Connick to the show: it's an adaptation of Therese Raquin, Emile Zola's novel of adultery and murder, transplanted from 19th century Paris to post-World War II New Orleans, the musician's hometown. The lure for Stroman? Well, it's hard to resist a chance to achieve a theatrical grand slam: four (count 'em) hits on Broadway running simultaneously. (Along with The Producers, the others are her dance musical Contact and the revival of The Music Man.) She's assembled a solid cast, including Craig Bierko...
...fishing writer, are "aggressive and fearless." Trolling there is a Catch-22: 1) The muskie keeps mostly to the weeds; therefore 2) you must fish in the weeds to catch him, but 3) as soon as you enter the weeds, your hooks gather a harvest of vegetables; your lure stops dancing, stops appealing to a muskie as an item to gobble, and resembles, instead, something like a mysteriously skindiving head of romaine lettuce. Thereupon, you reel in, clear the weeds from the hooks, and then let the lure slip out again to take its chances in the tangle...