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...unless both he and Aristide decide otherwise. Anti- Aristide sources said last week that with the U.N. accord now technically expired, the junta is planning to invoke Article 149 of the Haitian constitution, which calls for the chief justice of the Supreme Court to assume the presidency. Haiti's bogus Parliament, which was elected last January under military rule, will then be called into session to ratify the change. After that, the new President will call for the establishment of a "reconciliation government" that includes all major players, save Aristide. Ninety days later, elections will be held -- leaving...
...western classics in the main tend to be politically incorrect." D'Souza said, "Bogus multicultural readings [those that are specifically selected to conform to popular views] reflect less of a true heritage of the Non-western world...
...McMahon among others last week) like a high school kid on a job interview. His sidekick, Andy Richter, is a superfluous appendage. The prepared comedy bits have occasionally been funny (a takeoff on Letterman's Small-Town News in which the "real" items were faked) but more often tacky (bogus interviews with celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, with moving mouths superimposed on photos of them). O'Brien has decorated his rec-room set with pictures of TV personalities like Ernie Kovacs and Jack Paar. Unfortunately, he comes across more as a preppie Mr. Rogers...
Sometimes you have to be sick to become a millionaire. Relying on little more than their own fertile imaginations, Mordo and Jacqueline Danyali of Hollywood conjured up three bogus companies. Using the names of real and fictitious doctors, the couple allegedly proceeded over a period of more than two years to file 1,500 fraudulent health claims with more than 100 insurance companies. The police caught up with them in March. By then, according to the federal case against them, the Danyalis had already netted $1.4 million...
While fraudulent claims are a top priority in the FBI's white-collar-crime division, the White House has yet to target such scams to lower the cost of national health. Perhaps it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, bogus claims account for between 3% and 10% of the nation's $900 billion health bill. A crackdown on fraud could help defray the tab on Clinton's health-care proposal, which he previewed last week in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Broad on themes and thin on details, the plan aims to provide adequate coverage...