Word: preying
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...always loved theater productions that carry some kind of moral,” Hanley said. “I think this is a very powerful play. I think the characters represent humanity, what we are, our fears and our emotions, and how easy it is to fall prey to point fingers in any society, in any context,” he said. “This play really shows how dangerous that...
...military and intelligence officials are cautiously optimistic that their prey is within reach. The U.S.'s military spokesman in Afghanistan, Lieut. Colonel Brian Hilferty, said in January he was "sure" bin Laden and Omar would be captured this year. The deployment of special-forces teams to border villages has produced a spike in intelligence from locals about possible al-Qaeda hideouts. A U.S. officer in Afghanistan says American forces are employing techniques similar to those used to capture Saddam, combing bin Laden's network of contacts and interrogating anyone with information about the people who might be giving him shelter...
...Shan have an uneasy relationship with their ethnic cousins, the Thais. (Siam, the old name for Thailand, is a corruption of "Shan.") Unlike other ethnic groups fleeing persecution in Burma, the Shan who cross into Thailand are not granted refugee status, and easily fall prey to disease and human traffickers. To appease Burma's generals?who would like nothing more than a rebel-free Shan state?Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ordered his army to expel the S.S.A. from the group's headquarters, which straddles the border. But that hasn't happened yet and, despite public pronouncements to the contrary...
...Kurds had laid out bait for their prey. In early January, Kurdish security officials spread word in the villages along Iraq's border with Iran that one stretch of the mountainous frontier was lightly guarded and thus safe for travelers who had reason to slip unnoticed in or out of the country. Then the Kurds waited. "It was like dropping seeds for a chicken, saying 'Come, come,' and then catching it," a Kurdish official involved in the sting told TIME. It was a crisp morning in mid-January when the chicken fell into the trap...
Still, Ensler, believes that even daring college women can fall prey to an eagerness to please, overweening self-consciousness or insecurity. She cautions women against obsessing about their bodies. “When you ask whether you look fat, and I know you all do, what you’re really asking is, ‘Do I have the right to exist?’ If you just didn’t ask that question for one day, you could radically change your life...