Word: traps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Payback reaches its climax when Billy accepts construction work on a mob project site from Paddy, who realizes that for him, it is now kill or be killed. Both brothers are drawn into a death trap that no college education or mob connection can rescue them from...
Others who avoid this blame game fall into a trap that is just as insidious--the trap of self-redeeming racial guilt. They believe that supporting affirmative action, ethnic studies and a multicultural student center automatically makes them "good people." They believe that speaking out in favor of whatever they think students of other backgrounds want will absolve them from taking any other actions to improve ethnic relations on this campus. They believe that rhetoric is as strong as action. They believe that by feeling as guilty as possible for as long as possible, we will somehow arrive...
...they consider to be the inevitable "question" of Israel's presence in southern Lebanon. If this question is to be raised (which was doubtless one objective of the Times and AP articles), then the basis of their inquiry is misinformed. The Times, the AP, and others fall into the trap of drawing a parallel between this incident and Israel's defensive involvement in Lebanon where, in fact, no such connection inheres...
...Detective Mark Fuhrman's testimony that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years at first fell with an anticlimactic thud; it was only later, when he was revealed as a liar, that the case shattered open. Simpson may find himself caught in a similar trap. For if his testimony is right, so many people--and so much evidence--must be wrong...
Russian policymakers, especially those still inclined to see their country's relationship with the U.S. as intrinsically a rivalry, may fall into the trap of defining what is in their national interest as anything that annoys the U.S. or causes us problems. If the reflex to score points in a zero-sum game becomes a default feature in the software of Russian foreign policy, it will only generate mistrust on our side. That kind of vicious cycle, so familiar during the cold war, would be bad for everyone, but particularly for the Russians. They would risk repeating many...