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...THAT MUSIC AND CINEMA are responsible for the meltdown of U.S. society is utter nonsense; moreover, this red herring is perpetuated by venal politicians to pre-empt any serious examination of sensitive issues. America is ailing and in denial. Chief among the many ills exacerbating our sick spirit is bogus puritanism. Ill-minded men wed to this pernicious folly inhibit us from ordaining reasonable policies regarding sex, drugs, violent crime, taxes, the military and foreign policy. Tully Atkinson San Clemente, California...
...picture of the late Sinedu Tadesse along with the message, "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story about her," the paper made a grave journalistic error. It did not investigate. And, although it may be true that one never knows if anonymous tips are bogus or legitimate, some of the most exciting and important news stories have depended upon such tips, e.g. those provided by Deep Throat in Watergate...
...four weeks it has been operating, Scott's service has attracted thousands of cutups who have dispatched 18,000 bogus messages to unsuspecting users all over the world. On the same day Hong won her phony prize, other Internet users received celebrity E-mail from the chairman of Microsoft (a handsome job offer), the President of the U.S. (an admonishment to stop reading alt.sex and start studying), supermodel Cindy Crawford (a proposition), the Supreme Being (an invitation to the Second Coming) and Satan (an invitation to eternal damnation...
...murder, extortion, narcotics and gambling -- into the hugely profitable racket of software bootlegging. Police say members of the Wah Ching are using their traditional drug-smuggling routes to ship phony holograms produced in the unregulated factories of China. On April 20, for instance, a Chinese man carrying 29,000 bogus Microsoft holograms was snared by Customs officials as he attempted to enter San Francisco international airport. "The Wah Ching are into everything -- anything that will make money," says San Francisco police Sergeant Richard Moses...
...today's broadside after a top NRA official boasted of the letter's impact on contributions. "If the NRA's apology is sincere," Clinton said, "what they ought to do is put their money where their mouth is. They ought to give up the ill-gotten gains from the bogus fund-raising letter. . . . They ought to turn that money over to the organization that helps the families of police officers who died in the line of duty." Leaders of major law enforcement grous who were meeting with Clinton at the White House agreed with the president. "I think...