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...launch Operation Mincemeat in 1943, the British commandeered the corpse of a man who had just died in England. They dressed him in a military uniform, stuffed his pockets with small change and the bogus personal papers of one Major Martin, and chained a briefcase to him that contained disinformation about Allied "plans" for a Balkans invasion--when the real target was Sicily. Then they set the body adrift near the Spanish coast. As expected, Spanish officials retrieved the body and passed the briefcase to Nazi agents. They read the plans and alerted their masters, who duly diverted their troops...
...that schools try to deny their kids the help they need, and to which they are legally entitled, in order to save money. School officials counter that onerous regulations force them to spend more time worrying about potential lawsuits than about education. They also fume at parents who solicit bogus diagnoses of learning disabilities so their children will get more attention...
...songwriter Carole King, has '60s-type tunes for girl groups and beach boys. Hanks' new film That Thing You Do!, about the Wonders, an imaginary pop group from Erie, Pennsylvania, features songs in the style of the Beatles, the Ronettes, the Ventures, Jan and Dean, even a little bogus Bacharach. And the ultimate British rip-off group, the Rutles, are cashing in on the Anthology with their own Archaeology CD--satire you can hum along with...
...airline supervisor, I would send bogus bombs twice a day through airport-security X-ray machines, and several of them went frighteningly undetected. There are an infinite number of ways to put explosives on airplanes, but we trust that no one would be insane enough to try it. If the White House really wants to do something about airline safety, it needs to take off its blinders. Ask airline employees, airport staff or even travelers for the facts. Naivete is going to be the demise of this country. TRACY SCHADEBERG Laguna Hills, California...
...their dues to InterNIC's Network Solutions, which manages the huge database. In the past few weeks, InterNIC has started to crack down on the delinquents, closing their accounts until they lay their cash on the table. Below, some of the offending sites--including many that are clearly bogus--as compiled by Mike Walsh of Internet Info...