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...weight-loss tea and electric juicers. In fact, it appears to have existed primarily to feed his ego while bilking investors out of their savings. The company is now bankrupt, and police are investigating Ogami for swindling hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people. "The whole business?all of it?was baloney," says Inoue...
...spectacularly beguiling baloney, breathtaking in scope. An estimated 90,000 individuals in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia became G.O. "members," investing in the firm's schemes based on promises they could double or triple their savings. Until his operation unraveled earlier this year, Ogami, 39, had collected a total of $400 million, according to former G.O. Group executives, which he used to finance a lavish lifestyle, expand overseas and buy the offshore bank in the Philippines. He even financed his own action movie, Blades of the Sun, featuring himself in the starring role playing opposite a Filipina starlet...
...Baloney. Almost all of us faculty members fake it every semester. The reasons are manifold. We get to know and like our students and we don’t want to penalize them if everyone else is getting high grades. We don’t want to deal with the protests and struggles that can accompany marks in the low B and C range. Perhaps most importantly, we know that lower grades often—although not always—translate into lower student evaluations and lower enrollments. So we let loose with an orgy of academic...
...Noon. And while I'm tourniquetting his foot and screaming for help, this whole baloney that there was nobody there, there was no time for anyone to see it, there were 10 kids, four adults, I mean, the whole cage was lined with little faces pressed against the glass. Very irresponsible...
...head of the infectious disease department was staying overnight for the first three days and sat down with me and said, 'Two weeks ago I had five kids who petted a Komodo dragon and got severe salmonella poisoning and I was dealing with all of them. This is baloney that they said it was fine. It's not fine...