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...coaches have forgotten other rules. There's ex-basketball coach Larry Eustachy of Iowa State, who forgot the one about not getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
...case filed now might not be heard for many months. Don't assume that you have a strong case just because you lost money in the market. To win money back, you would have to show, say, that you made decisions based on advice that turned out to be bogus...
...some winner or presenter make a hero or a fool of himself with a bold declaration of George Bush's Iraq 'n roll war? The task fell to someone eager to shoulder it: Michael Moore, producer-director of "Bowling for Columbine," a docu-tragicomedy that just about predicted a bogus U.S. war post-9/11. One of the few leftists to park his ample carcass atop the non-fiction best seller list for months on end, Moore was spoiling for this fight. On Thursday, he had posted an open letter to "Governor" Bush that decried his "lying and conniving." Saturday...
...brainwashed. I never ran for student council in high school. I assumed it was completely bogus. Yet for some reason, the allure of trying to make life here more fair, more fun, and more like what we dreamed about was too much for me to resist. I hate so much about this institution, and like those who stage protests and lodge complaints, I love to hate Harvard...
...lawn mowers in Canada make you a suspected link to al-Qaeda? Michael John Hamdani, 44, became just that after a shopping spree late last October in Brampton, a city west of Toronto. The owners of a shop that he and a friend had patronized believed they had received bogus U.S. traveler's checks and alerted the police. A raid on the homes of Hamdani and his pal turned up an array of big-screen TVs and other luxury goods, $600,000 in forged American Express and Thomas Cook checks, a state-of-the-art counterfeiting operation complete with silk...