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...mother of the missing intern said this past week was particularly agonizing because of reports that a body had been found. The tip, delivered to a web site, WeTip.com, sent news media scurrying but it turned out to be bogus. "I'm not holding up very well. It's been a very rough week. Very rough. Very tired." And she reiterated her consistent plea: "I want my daughter found alive. I want the truth to come...
...first place? Bannon, who is now a lawyer active in Democratic state politics, is pretty clear on this point: "First and foremost, he was trying to be a wiseass." Shortly after first deploying the card, Bannon ran into Bush and told him of his success with the bogus credentials bearing his signature. The future First Father seemed well pleased...
...That, of course, is the big question: What must the Tories do next? Hague has been criticized for a campaign directed at "bogus" asylum seekers, tougher measures for crime, staying out of the euro and lowering taxes. This presented an image, former Tory Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine told the bbc, of "a right-wing, xenophobic party talking to itself in a very introspective way." A new vision is clearly needed, but the difficulty for the Conservatives is that Labour now has successfully pre-empted the center ground...
...Wang now prefers to travel by train: he has learned firsthand that you never know who's flying your plane. (Then again, he has heard of a rival printer who has been producing bogus train-engineer diplomas.) But Wang figures it's better to be in a train accident than a plane crash?though it may not make much of a difference, considering how many doctors in China are practicing thanks to fake accreditation certificates from printing shops like Wang...
...butts to them, but it's become, in the repeated words of the execs on stage at Carnegie Hall, "younger and more affluent." In other words, more successful by the same standards that, a couple years ago, the network with the oldest audience in network TV said were bogus and unfair. Back then, at the home of Dick Van Dyke, the 18-49 demographic was an ageist advertisers' shibboleth; today, the network of Colby and Elisabeth wants to turn into a regular rave party...