Word: tempts
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...nagging mothers will do, my mom came up with a catchphrase my senior year in high school to tempt me to apply to and attend the school of her choice. Her slogan was surprisingly short and catchy: “They have more fun at Yale...
...have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style. A classic example appears in the latest "Complete Crumb." "Footsy," rendered in a dramatic chiaroscuro, tells of his teenage encounters with the feet of various "lusty creatures" at school. For the new story, "Don't Tempt Fate," Crumb has abandoned the rich blacks that characterized this part of his career in favor of a crosshatching technique that captures every ripple of flesh and clothing. "Fate" tells the story of how a playmate accidentally smashed Crumb's mouth, leaving him with an absurd, gap-toothed grin...
...Although the Arab peace plan was never going to tempt Sharon - the Arab consensus is that peace won't be possible while he remains Prime Minister, an inversion of the widely held Israeli belief about Arafat - it does restate the question of Israel's long-term intentions for the West Bank and Gaza...
...wave of violence. Turning on the grassroots militants of his own movement in order to enforce a cease-fire may not be his first instinct right now. The rewards - a meeting with Cheney, a starring role at the Arab League summit - may not be enough to persuade him to tempt the wrath of the Palestinian street. Moreover, the Tenet-Mitchell cease-fire formula would require him to disarm the very militias whose actions have helped restore his political fortunes...
...widely seen as Israel's abettor, a U.S. campaign against Iraq would incite unrest in their streets. "Emotions are already boiling," says an Arab diplomat. "A second war will be more than the region can take." Turkey and Syria, which border Iraq, are worried that Saddam's fall could tempt the Kurds who live in Iraq's north to secede, thereby emboldening their Kurdish populations to agitate for autonomy...