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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...headlines haven't dented job seekers' desire to dissemble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-checking company, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U.S. lie about their education on their résumés. (A common boast by guys: that they played on the college football team.) ResumeDoctor.com a résumé-writing business, found that of 1,000 résumés it vetted over six months, 43% contained one or more "significant inaccuracies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Wise to Lies | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

Corey M. Rennell ’07 will soon boast more than climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, and surviving anthrax contracted from a sheep as among his feats. Rennell will be one of six participants in an upcoming reality TV show produced by BBC and The Discovery Channel. Rennell said he will receive $10,000 for participating in the program. Rennell was one of over 100 Americans who applied for the show, according to Louisa M. Griffith-Jones, associate producer for the BBC. The program will feature three American and three British male athletes who will spend...

Author: By Peter R. Raymond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rennell ’07 Nabs Spot On Reality TV Series | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

SYDNEY Tommy Hilfiger's sunglasses ($70) boast a unique color-fade effect in the face of the bright Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List: Shades | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...reliably great member hasn't exactly softened his material (fishscale is apparently slang for uncut cocaine), but then he hasn't lost his ability to tell a story either. In Ghostface's dexterous delivery, a line like "Workin' out, all I curl is my index finger" is less a boast about control than one more detail in a life of paranoia. The production puts equal value on melody and tension and even has room for nostalgia--9 Milli Bros. is a Wu-Tang reunion--but the truth is that Ghostface is better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 of Our Favorite Picks | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

Four teams—Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and Penn—boast records better than .500. That makes every match-up between the teams crucial in the hunt for the Ivy title...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PREVIEW: Crimson Hoping 16 Will Be Lucky Number | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

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