It's a bit of a Pied Piper situation.

NPR: What's in a Song? 'Twilight'

But back when he first ran for Congress in 1938, he was seen strolling up and down the streets of his home district like a pied piper, trying to persuade local musicians to come along and join his campaign.

CNN: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore'

Mr. Stulman has become a kind of pied piper of digerati stomachs.

WSJ: 'Flattening the Old World'

Bleeker cites the opinions in particular of the Economist and the American Interest, two publications with a history of Pied Piper-like false optimism.

FORBES: American Decline: More Wishful Thinking from the Naysayers

Leading "Team Rat" is Anthony Martin, a 58-year-old white-bearded zoologist, whom some have called "the Pied Piper" for his role in the rat cull.

WSJ: This British Assault on an Island Off Argentina Is for the Birds

The Harvard team is working to refine the technology, however, and there may be a day when we can satisfy our megalomania... or at least, put the Pied Piper on notice.

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