Word: cons
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...recovering drug addict is getting frantic in a run-down Niagara Falls motel as she and her ex-con spouse await word on whether they can regain custody of their baby daughter from foster care. In another room, a family man prepares for an interview for a job beneath his skills and dignity while coping with his failing marriage. And in the motel's seen-better-days Riverside Grill, a pregnant, recently widowed waitress considers performing in porn films to earn enough to support her unborn child. Interspersed in and among those stories: a kidnapping, a suicide attempt, a heart...
...Heist (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), planning to take down a Beverly Hills jewelry store, fall into the Ocean's Eleven school of fast-talking, ice-cool swells. (Hustle, a British import nearing the end of its season on AMC, takes a similar tack with a band of con artists.) The robbers (led by Dougray Scott and The Practice's Steve Harris) gab about strippers and Mother Teresa while on a job; the cops who chase them self-consciously reference Lethal Weapon. Created by brothers Mark and Robb Cullen and co-executive-produced by Doug Liman, who directed...
...adding the “T” the next logical step for Harvard?Eric hopes so. “I’ve had an overwhelmingly positive experience here overall,” he says, “but a major con was the fact that they [Harvard] reserved the right to discriminate against trans students, faculty and employees.” And that, at the end of the day, is the most salient part.Sachi A. Ezura, Mark F. Giangreco, Jr., and Katherine O’Donnell contributed the reporting of this article...
...with them private. That has cleared the way for a cottage industry devoted to exploiting phone numbers, calling records and even the locations of unsuspecting subscribers for profit. A second business segment is developing applications like anonymous traffic monitoring and employee tracking. It's not just the con artists who are a worry. Every new mobile-phone technology, even a useful, perfectly legal one, comes with unintended privacy concerns...
...backyard is the Intracoastal Waterway. Sitting in his airy, wood-paneled office, surrounded by about a dozen neat stacks of paper representing works in progress, he's amiable, chatty and deeply unpretentious--he refers to his writing as "scribbling." But it's at least a bit of a con--he's read practically everything, and he gets a sly kick out of reminding you of that. He references both Ibsen and Crichton, Joan Didion and Jean Genet. Before I arrived, just as a courtesy, he read my book...