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...never been seriously involved in any politics before I got here," Lee says. "I did student council in high school--I was vice president--but it was kind of a bogus position...
...December, prominent Mexican stockbroker Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert was an honored dinner guest of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. But these days Legorreta is a guest of the Reclusorio Oriente jail in Mexico City, where he has been held without bail since Feb. 14 on charges that he traded in bogus government treasury certificates, as well as other allegations of securities fraud. Legorreta, chairman of the go-go brokerage firm Operadora de Bolsa, is the government's biggest catch in a long-awaited crackdown on irregularities in the Mexican stock exchange, La Bolsa...
Mayor Flynn responded by calling Wade's argument "the most bogus point of view I've ever heard...
From its opening sequence, Burning convincingly recaptures the racial dread of 1964 Mississippi. But the verisimilitude is soon sacrificed for a bogus conclusion: that to protect the rights of blacks, the Federal Government sank to the same level of lawless terror occupied by the Ku Klux Klan. To the extent they appear at all, blacks are portrayed as ineffectual victims, helplessly waiting for the "Kennedy boys" to set them free. In due course, that is just what happens, as the FBI cracks the case by brutally intimidating a white witness...
Students said they are satisfied with the current grading system. Freshman Ben Myers said that the 'NC' provides a "lack of pressure that makes Stanford so exciting. 'F's are bogus." He added, "A transcript is supposed to be a record of your academic excellence, and if I fail a course, I wouldn't want it showing...