Word: cons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...con artists operate in Somerville and Cambridge, but mostly around Harvard Square. All six reported cases have involved Asian females, four of whom are Harvard undergraduates...
Police said the con-artists tell the victimsthey have found a check for $4500 on the street.They ask the victim to deposit the check in herbank account, and to split the cash with them ifit clears...
...survival seems to hang on getting an edge, cutting a corner, telling a lie, then many otherwise moral people will choose to survive. The economy will, of course, improve; but the hangover from the recession may stick around: the impression that doing business, earning a living, is a con game, with rewards going to the clever and the unscrupulous...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. A Midsummer Night's Dream and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 on Friday, Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. Symphony Hall, Boston. $19.50-$55. Call "CON-CERT" (266-2378) for more information...
...fashion that THE HAT SQUAD looks downright fresh. The new CBS series, about three brothers who wear black fedoras as members of a police special-crimes unit, is in many ways the most preposterous new show of the season. In last week's premiere, the villain, a sadistic ex-con, was an unstoppable monster straight out of Friday the 13th, and the action scenes (including a bungee-jump knockout) made Road Runner cartoons look realistic. Still, creator Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team, Hunter) has a knack for vivid characters and punchy dialogue, and he invests the genre with...