The damn Associated Press got the piece below online on Sunday, the 4th of December. There’s $100* in it for anyone who can come up (within a week) with as many separate *indiscretions*/problems attached to/inherent in the article as I did in ten minutes. My disclosure is available upon request, of course.

*On other sites I referred to “Monopoly Moolah” in offering this figure, which meant that I’d probably have to mug a corporate exec if anyone met my terms.

Help? Hints? Well, I came up with eleven while making a smoothie. And…one of my ditties centers on *a Mossad agent being The Highlighted Star*. I’d really enjoy receiving some word for one and all to digest for the holidays in the Comments section ’cause Fun & Games is all The (Bowel) Movement retains these days, its smart(ing) farts notwithstanding.

NEW YORK -
Steven Spielberg is taking on terror. His latest film, “Munich,” centers on the aftermath of the killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.

“I don’t think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today,” Spielberg tells Time magazine in its Dec. 12 issue. “But it’s certainly worth a try.”

Eric Bana (”Troy”) stars as a Mossad agent who leads a secret Israeli squad assigned to assassinate 11 Palestinians suspected of planning the killings.

“We don’t demonize our targets,” Spielberg says. “They’re individuals. They have families. Although what happened in Munich, I condemn.”

Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner would not reveal the identity of the man Bana portrays, whom they interviewed at length.

“There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating,” Spielberg tells the magazine. “It’s bound to try a man’s soul.”

Special note: I trust that readers can see the difference between my offering and the Russell Mokhiber/Robert Weissman Corporate Crime Quiz (http://www.counterpunch.org/mokhiber12052005.html), *that* exercise being a total waste of time, in much the same fashion as what we were all subjected to in school…its superficial, politically-correct focus shining through and through. Another feather in subscription-centered Counterpunch’s hat, I guess. Long live the lowest left common denominator!