Word: trappings
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...Bill Clinton would no doubt chalk the performance up to Dole's "addiction to tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week. Off-camera, things were just as surreal. Dole was being stalked by a 7-ft.-tall cigarette named Mr. Butt Man, a Democrat who wheezes and coughs while passing out fake $1 bills emblazoned with a caricature of "Smokin' Bob Dole...
...missiles that he boasted "could take out a 747." Customs didn't have any more money to spend but delayed making arrests. "We were trying to lure the large business figures [in China] to the States," says Rollin Klink, head of Customs in San Francisco. Officials finally sprung the trap after learning that the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times were on to the sting. Still, one important figure, Ma, is at large and may have escaped to China. Ku and Chen are under arrest, along with several Chinese and American collaborators. And those amateur actors at Customs...
Perhaps the biggest investor error, says Jamie Kiggen, a managing director and Internet analyst at Bear Stearns, is overconfidence. "Many investors fall into the trap of thinking that technology somehow makes them invulnerable or wiser. Nothing could be further from the truth," she says...
What is interesting about Santini's article is that she has fallen into that trap herself. While advocating the establishment of a forum solely for Puerto Rican students, she also says, "As Latinos we are divided among Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, etc., and as Puerto Ricans we align ourselves as either from the island or the 'mainland.'...By creating divisions we can only weaken ourselves." She indicates that division is something we must avoid. Doesn't Santini see that the establishment of yet another ethnic organization on the Harvard campus for yet another Latino group would only exacerbate this division...
...give her a last name which illicits cringes and snickers from everyone from teachers to pizza deliverers. I have always had starry-eyed visions of marrying a man with an aesthetically-pleasing last name, even as the feminist in me screams that I am falling into the trap of patriarchy by wanting to give...