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...began innocently enough. Just two Crimson executives pretending to take photos of themselves, but really taking photos of the Lamont Library’s bookbag checker with an extremely powerful telephoto lens. The idea was to fill a bookbag to the brim with photos of the person who inspects bags at Lamont. Upon searching for stolen books, said inspector would find only unauthorized self-portraits, dozens and dozens of them. This of course, would blow his freakin’ mind! And FM’s merry pranksters would be laughing all the way to the comedy bank...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM Attempts Prank To Acheive Own 15 Minutes of Fame, Fails Miserably | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...addition to her work as a morning checker at the dining hall, Tompkins was devoted to her five children, ages six to 18, and her volunteer job with the Special Olympics...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beloved Eliot Dining Hall Checker Dies | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...Answers to the mysteries of Abu Nidal's employer, job description and demise are unlikely to be forthcoming. His quarter-century of clandestine operations involved plenty of double-dealing and no paper trail. Verifying tales of Nidal's comings and goings is a fact-checker's nightmare, and this week's news was hardly the first time tales of Nidal's demise had filled headlines. Thirteen years ago he was reportedly at death's door, riddled with cancer in a Libyan hospital. Eight years later, he was still at death's door, this time reportedly in an Egyptian hospital, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Abu Nidal | 8/22/2002 | See Source »

...cutest kid I’ve ever known,” Annenberg ID checker Domna Antonia. “Everybody loves the kid. He’s our mascot. He even knows my name...

Author: By Jeslyn A. Miller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FDO’s Senior Proctor To Depart | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...light, breezy narrative with some astute snapshots of international dope meccas, more than a few chuckles, and an ending that leaves the reader coming down like the end of a good, night-long buzz. (Too bad the manuscript didn't have a better editor?or a decent fact-checker. Note to Decca: Spike Lee directed the film Malcolm X, not Oliver Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Been There, Done That | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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