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Cuomo's motive, Dick Morris suggests in a recent column, was not so much to embarrass Giuliani on the homeless issue as to bait him into an angry outburst.
, but it's left to the laughably garish climax for the wacko to spell out his/her arbitrary motive.
Clearly, the predominant ‘motive’ during the evolution of a novel gene function is to gain a selective advantage.
Pundits theorized Starr's true motive was to distance himself from right-wing Clinton conspiracy theorist Richard Mellon Scaife, a major donor to Pepperdine who is accused of funneling money to Clinton Whitewater accuser David Hale.
What possible motive would they have had?