Word: trappings
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...roadside bombings as they rushed to the aid of the downed chopper crew. The Pentagon hasn't said whether the helicopter was hit by hostile fire, but the fact that rescuers rushing to help the pilots were ambushed suggests that insurgents downed the Kiowa in order to bait a trap for those rescuers...
...Israel, once again, may have succeeded in taking out a few Hamas commanders and slowing the rain of homemade rockets landing on its soil from Gaza. But it has fallen into a familiar trap. Once again, their mutual loathing of Israel has helped warring Palestinian militias overcome their fratricidal tendencies. When the Fatah-Hamas power struggle turns into a shooting war, the most effective way of getting a cease-fire appears to be firing a few dozen badly aimed rockets into southern Israel and then waiting for the Israelis to intervene - which the Israelis invariably do. And when under fire...
...lieu of a better solution. "When a wall becomes an ideology or a panacea," Seidemann argues, "it says a lot more about the people who built it than those it's keeping out." Of course, nations have the right to protect themselves. But it's worth remembering that walls trap those who are hunkered down behind them as well as those who are turned away...
...Harvard men’s lacrosse team’s 12-9 win over Holy Cross on Saturday had the perfect makings of a trap game. Putting aside the fact that the Crimson has now knocked off the non-conference Crusaders in 24 straight contests, it was the first time in four games that Harvard played a team not ranked in nation’s top 20.The Crimson held on for the victory after allowing Holy Cross within a single goal with just 85 seconds left in the game, but the late letdown—as well as a number...
...week logging periods (one per quarter), one of which will necessarily be during the summer, when college radio stations typically broadcast automated air.Unlike BMI, SoundExchange provides no clear guidelines for how the data should be compiled nor do they remind stations to submit the information, setting up a trap for smaller stations.They also accept data only in digital format, making it difficult for stations that play CDs and LPs and do not use automated software for the bulk of their programming to comply.Beyond the administrative and logistical nuisances is the threat to the financial viability of small, streaming operations.Internet radio?...