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Some even thought it was a ploy to amass an email database to sell, and expressed concerns to that effect over house email lists...
...Outside on the red carpet there was the usual array of TV crews and journalists, all eager for a bite out of the celebrities as they strolled down the aisle.I spotted one TV interviewer who was using a most unusual ploy to capture the eye of passing celebrities, who usually want to go straight inside a party...
...focus of its foreign policy, seemed to score a coup of sorts last week when Russian President Vladimir Putin offered an anti-missile proposal. Putin's plan accepted the possibility of certain types of limited missile defenses. However, on close examnination, the proposal looks more like a mere barganing ploy vastly different from the system Bush would build. This gap between the president's designs and the systems our foreign allies and partners would support shows how much the U.S. stands to lose diplomatically if it continues to move towards a hasty and unworkable missile defense...
...office had been not its rent but the presumptions of privilege it implied. The champion of the little guy would be hanging with moguls like Barry Diller, trotting down to the Four Seasons for lunch. So Clinton announced he was heading up to West 125th Street in Harlem--a ploy so transparent it actually worked, bringing happy headlines to the tabloids and a cheering crowd onto Malcolm X Boulevard. It hardly mattered that Mayor Rudy Giuliani already had dibs on the office space (a temporary complication that a presidential advance team would have avoided) or that the inspiration to make...
...mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen as contributing to international peace and security." To carry out his plan, Samaranch, due to retire in July, would have to strip Athens of the 2004 Games. But the terrorist bombs that rock the Greek capital...