Word: preying
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Which still doesn't explain what happened to Mohamed Atta. "Let each find his blade for the prey to be slaughtered," reads a passage of the letter found in Atta's luggage. How Atta found his blade may never be known...
...play takes place at fictional Merion Academy, a WASPy boarding school for sons of the elite. It focuses on three blond, blazered bluebloods, seniors at the school, and their prey, Wiggins. When the boys discover that Wiggins has stolen money from other students, they blackmail, beat and bugger him in an abandoned closet in the school’s basement...
...story, without the self-righteous whining or high-mindedness of the writer interfering. Gornick uses George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” as an example of the importance of narrative voice. In life, Orwell was often an ugly and brutish man, falling prey to his own bitter insecurities, sexism, rabid anti-communism and other flaws. But in “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell adopts the persona of “the involuntary truth speaker, the one who implicates himself not because he wants to but because he has no choice...
While impressive, the pictures that accompanied your cover story contradicted the article's message that humans are most often inadvertent victims rather than targeted prey. In three photos, the shark appears as the aggressive killer the fearful public has always imagined. You should have chosen photographs that better depicted the misunderstood fish you wrote about. In this case, the pictures negated your thousand words. ADAM WYSE Delaware, Ohio...
...believe TIME chose to celebrate the profession of marketing [INNOVATORS, July 23]. Why applaud efforts to sell people products that they most likely don't need? Marketing is nothing but trying to devise clever ways to manipulate people. Marketers are the hunters, and consumers are the prey. KRISTINA FELICIANO New York City...