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Instead of a bogus record that inevitably would have been challenged by a still younger child (the Guinness Book of Records officially discontinued its Youngest Pilot categories in 1989, fearing accidents), Americans have a macabre photo album of little Jessica. A mini-Amelia Earhart, in a leather bomber jacket and riding pants. A plucky, pug-nosed girl in a baseball cap who seemed more at home on one of her beloved ponies than in a plane...
McVeigh: While I can't discuss the specific evidence, people have to realize that 90% of the case that people think they have, it has all been through nonverifiable leaks. And I think you would be surprised how much those leaks are bogus. Especially through eyewitnesses...
...fugitives from other areas, the Freemen have posted $1 million bounties on the heads of Phipps, county attorney Nick Murnion and local bankers, threatened to kidnap and hang local judges, and put phony liens on the property of anyone who got in their way. Prosecutors say they used one bogus money order in a failed attempt to buy $1.4 million in arms and ammunition...
Whether economics or a recovery of good taste lies behind this dispute, the news for book lovers may be good. Fewer bogus novels by transient celebrities may free up some contracts for actual writers, a few of whom may eventually become big names. That, come to think of it, is how this season's hottest literary celebrity, Jane Austen, got her start...
After all, Harvard students already know a little bit about deception. Their resumes, padded with bogus activities and acheivements, testify to their ability and willingness to decieve. Students who choose to steal should plan elaborate crimes. Then, we would all be entertained by protracted campus mysteries until the greedy whizkids are caught and thrown into the slammer. David W. Brown