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...That's why the "Gotcha!" moment won't come when the White House has translated Iraq's declaration and compared it to the dossiers compiled by U.S. intelligence; it can only come if the U.S. is able to point the UNMOVIC inspectors to sites, individuals or documents that will prove Saddam is lying. Washington has the advantage, of course, in that Saddam doesn't know what Bush knows about the Iraqis' doings. Nor, of course, do the rest of us, from UNMOVIC chief Hans Blix on down. The coming weeks will not only test Saddam's claim that...
...corporate "gotcha!" moment that seemed to have it all--longer than a perp walk, more than just a Senate hearing. Former Enron managing director Michael Kopper's guilty plea to wire fraud and money laundering appeared to promise future boons for government prosecutors, who are counting on him to incriminate his bosses, and for defrauded Enron investors, employees and pensioners, who may win back some of the ill-gotten spoils. In court documents, Kopper detailed the schemes that he says he ran with former CFO Andrew Fastow, schemes that cost the energy giant more than $1 billion. (Fastow...
...tough and challenging without being excessively confrontational, to get information without playing gotcha...
...most of this year the Bush Administration was not part of the crusade against money laundering. Pointing out this U-turn, supporters of those rules say, isn't about playing gotcha. It's about continuing to press for anti-money-laundering regulations...
...Sarah Hayes, ambient manager at Blade, a London company that buys outdoor space, defines ambient media as "nontraditional, out-of-home" advertising with a gotcha! factor. Adds Samantha Yates, director of Amber Media, a British agency that specializes in the form: "Good ambient is making people think, 'Oh, that was clever.'" And if the stunt happens to result in a few admiring headlines, so much the better...