Word: preys
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...become a laboratory for creativity and a catalyst for the understanding of art at Harvard. The Carpenter Center as synthèse des arts was a utopian challenge for Corbusier, whose recent and no less idealistic project of designing a home for the fledging United Nations had fallen prey to the horns of bureaucracy...
...have a confession to make. After three and a half years of exploring the arts, trying my hand at editorial writing and involving myself in Harvard’s academic centers, I have fallen prey to on-campus recruiting, which every year clutches numerous seniors in its unforgiving grip. I have long disdained and derided the whole process: a child of artists from San Francisco, I could never imagine myself on Wall Street in a tailored suit and prim pumps. Yet I have succumbed to the pressures to find a competitive, high-paying...
...secret plan to gut Social Security and revive the draft, which inspired Bush to accuse his rival of exploiting the politics of fear. The Democrats threw the charge right back when the Bush campaign launched the "Wolves" ad, which shows a pack prowling a forest like terrorists hunting their prey and implicitly suggests the country can't afford to choose Kerry under such threatening conditions...
...Fallujah and Ramadi, the two most restive towns in Anbar, Iraq's most restive province. New forces were brought in, new strategies employed. But despite clear successes, the week's record of strikes and counterstrikes suggests that if, as the young Marine said, the Americans are predators, the prey is dictating the nature of the hunt...
Moreover, these last-minute ad campaigns are not legitimate efforts to persuade the few undecided voters still out there. Rather, they are laden with shock tactics that prey on the public’s fears, and they do a service...