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...been bilked of $1 billion by development companies and mortgage brokers in Southern Florida. According to investigators, the Ponzi-like scheme worked this way: the developers bought nearly worthless tracts of land, subdivided them and sold homesites at inflated prices; they used the proceeds to pay high interest on bogus notes sold to investors under a false claim that the notes were secured by first mortgages on the homesites. When the recession slowed lot sales, many developers defaulted. Investors who tried to foreclose discovered that the real first mortgages were held by banks and other original lenders, so that they...
...Look at the derision and laughter in the Democratic Party when a Paul Newman or a Marlo Thomas decides to make a political statement," he says. "It's as if a political statement by someone in the arts is bogus or without intellectual foundation. If I leave Harvard and decide I want to be a musician, suddenly any political ideas I have will be suspect. People will see me as a musician, not someone who's studied government at Harvard...
...cunning of his diary. Certainly Pepys was an avid collector of fine-bound volumes, which he arranged according to their height rather than subject matter, and he had a portrait of himself painted with a scrap of musical score in one hand. There is something more than a little bogus about Pepys the aesthete, as if he collected his culture the way he built up his cellar (he was a wine snob who kept his Haut-Brion claret in a cask). His custom-de signed carriage may have meant as much to Pepys as his carefully acquired prints. And nothing...
WHEN A HARVARD team of biochemists lept into national attention in December with the announcement that their undergraduate co-worker was letter-forger and that their recent breakthroughs in cancer-related immunology might also be bogus, all sorts of interesting people around the University began running for cover...
...Fleet, which is never around, is supposed to be terrific, and has "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" in it. But Swing time, which is not rare (although the best Astaire and Rogers film there is) was also made in 1936. Anyway this mysterious, possibly bogus entity will be screened with Cat People, a low-budget thriller made in 1942. Cat People...