Word: connessed
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...acting well before that. I've always been a con artist, trying to talk my way out of trouble - or into...
...Marlene Dietrich, but it was in 1936, on a loan-out for an RKO flop, Sylvia Scarlett, that he finally "felt the ground under his feet," as George Cukor, the film's director, would put it. He played a type he had known in his past, a Cockney con man with a chipper way of expressing a gloomy view of human nature. Here, for the first time, he achieved that quicksilver quality that was the basis of his stardom and, ultimately, his legend...
...woman who made headlines because she attended a Columbia University graduate school under a stolen identity is also believed to have been accepted to Harvard under a name not her own, allegedly using the identity of a 1999 College graduate. The con artist was identified as Esther E. Reed, 28. She attended Columbia University under the identity of Brooke Henson, a South Carolinian who has been reported missing since 1991, according to a New York Post article published on Monday. Little information is known about Reed, but Post reporter Lukas I. Alpert, who wrote the article, told The Crimson...
...They do complicate the politics of searches because people have such intense feelings pro and con,” he writes in an e-mail. “I also believe that they are frequently unfairly burdened by local knowledge. It’s easier for an outsider to have a halo...
...PAPER, SHRED IT Stickley regularly dives into his clients' Dumpsters; he says even a Post-it note with a customer's name and phone number gives him enough to begin a scam. Employee names, positions and work schedules are invaluable to con artists...