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What's going on here? Did Frey lie to boost his story's drama and his own street cred? TIME was able to check some of the Smoking Gun's findings, and came to the same conclusion. For example, Marianne Sanders, 62, the mother of the girl who died, says that she and her husband recognize Frey but that he was not a good friend of their daughter's and that he wasn't even remotely blamed for the accident that killed her in 1986 (another girl, whom Frey doesn't mention, also died in the accident). "We knew...
...boost his story's drama, and his street cred? (Have we learned nothing, nothing, from the downfall of Vanilla Ice?) Frey isn't giving an inch-or he gives an inch, but that's all. He wrote on his website: "Let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this bulls___ with any sort of further response." On Wednesday (having apparently reconsidered that last bit somewhat) he appeared on Larry King with a more nuanced position: "A memoir is a subjective retelling of events," he said...
...Senator Frist limits considerably the scope and purpose of higher education,” Greene wrote in an e-mail.Nevertheless, Greene said she does not foresee a threat to the academic security of particular Romance languages.“I don’t believe that it will suddenly boost the study of Portuguese and Romanian (which would be a good thing in itself) at the detriment of Spanish, French, Italian and less studied romance languages such as Catalan,” she wrote. “The motivations for studying these languages will remain diverse and strong, with or without...
...this gold for the weddings," says Kondababu. "Sometimes families get broken up by gold." Economists argue that the gold bug has other pernicious effects. If the money used to buy gold was invested in banks or stocks, rather than being locked up in a non-productive asset, it would boost India's GDP significantly, they say. But old ways of thinking die hard. Gold is seen by many as a safe haven in an uncertain world. "So many banks fail and close their doors, and ordinary people get hurt when that happens," says Jhansi Rani, a schoolteacher in Madras, pointing...
...three finish with a time of 2:17.61, which was good enough for an NCAA “B” cut. Second and third were nabbed by Chang and senior Jane Evans respectively.“Certainly in the 200 breaststroke, watching people win and beat records really boosts your confidence,” Pangilinan said. “Touching the wall in the 200, I felt great. And to come in and see my other teammates come in and go one-two-three it gave my teammates a lot of confidence. The team really used that to keep...