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But somehow the farmer foils the little predator's scheme, and he ends up with nothing-neither chicken, nor eggs.
The low point might have to be a Globe story titled "Lisa Kudrow's friendly trip to the hairdresser," complete with a photo of Kudrow--whose expression suggests she may have just realized she's not alone--with her head piled high with silver foils.
Ed Bryant, R-Tenn., tries to get her to implicate Clinton in subornation of perjury--particularly in a Dec. 17, 1997, phone call and a Dec. 28, 1997, meeting--she repeatedly foils Bryant's plan not with lies but with Clintonesque verbal tricks.
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.
But Starr foils both sides.