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Walker is fairly certain that her products are legal. The Justice Department maintains that no particular law bans carrying such documents. Walker's rival in the passport business, the State Department, professes no objection to U.S. citizens' holding the bogus papers -- as long as they present their genuine passports when they enter or leave the country...
About 28% of the National Football League's long-standing customers showed up to sample the first bogus games -- as many as 38,494 in Denver, as few as 4,074 in Philadelphia -- while the television audience started out curiously strong (just three or four rating points off the normal 14) but dwindled as the afternoon bore on and the novelty wore out. In 17 years, only one Monday- night program ever summoned less interest than the sans San Francisco 49ers versus the new New York Giants, though the show contained one exquisite moment. Beginning the second half, 49ers Coach...
...date, 130 people have faced charges in connection with tax frauds involving some $80 million in unpaid taxes. In one case, three men were convicted earlier this year in an elaborate scheme involving a bogus construction company and tax-exemption frauds. They handed the $320,000 the company collected over to the I.N.L.A. The judge in the case, Michael Nicholson, called the swindles "one of the most important sources of cash for terrorists...
...bogus requirement. Students study half an hour the night before the test, and half an hour after the test they have forgotten everything they learned," said David R. Korfhage...
When run flawlessly, the Wishbone is nearly impossible to defend. Confused linemen, linebackers and backfielders pursue bogus ball toters while the actual carrier breaks away into the open field...