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...serial plagiarist is a familiar journalistic type, but the serial fabulist is rare. Glass concocted story after story and slipped them all past his editors and fact checkers, often buttressing his claims with forged notes and interview transcripts and other bogus documents. His work was challenged from time to time--a March 1997 account of a cocaine-fueled orgy at a young-conservatives conference was hooted at loudly--but his career sailed on, with free-lance contracts from a fistful of magazines...
...TRUMAN SHOW (June 5). Truman Burbank is the only man on earth who doesn't know he's the star of a popular 24-hour soap opera. As Truman, Jim Carrey inhabits director Peter Weir's bogus universe with a heroic gentility. But will Carrey's rowdy fans skip Truman? Or will the audience that might appreciate an adult parable stay home because, hey, it's just a Jim Carrey movie? One industry savant says not to worry: this canny film will reach both groups and gross $200 million...
Flynt wants to prove that the obscenity exception to the First Amendment, as defined in the Supreme Court decision in Miller v. California, is bogus. The 1973 case allows local communities to determine what is acceptable. Flynt argues that even in Cincinnati, Americans no longer find much of anything to be obscene. In a society where anything can be downloaded on the Internet, where Bernard Shaw uses the F word on CNN and where one of Jerry Springer's most popular returning guests is a porn star famous for having sex with 300 people in one day, what can possibly...
TEHRAN: They may be men of the cloth, but when it comes to political infighting, Iran?s conservatives play dirty pool. This week Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, a key aide of the moderate President Mohammed Khatami, was arrested on corruption charges. ?The charges are widely regarded as bogus, because Karbaschi is one of the cleanest politicians in the country,? says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. ?This is the strongest challenge yet to Khatami by the conservatives who are resisting his moves to thaw relations with Washington.? Although Khatami and his government have condemned the arrest -- and arranged...
...ever hated Spam canned meat as much as Netizens detest its contemporary namesake. Unsolicited junk E-mail now accounts for 10% of all Internet traffic and up to 30% of the 26 million daily messages on America Online. Because spammers are such a fast-moving target--using constantly changing bogus return addresses--their stuff is almost impossible to stamp out. But help is on the way. Sendmail Inc., makers of the most popular E-mail-routing software, says its new version has a built-in antispam tool kit that includes a virtually spamproof address verifier...