Word: counterfeiter
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Billy Graham turned 75 this week, an occasion for some reckoning of a life and career full of blessings and contradictions. Everyone has a preferred ; description. George Bush called him "America's pastor." Harry Truman called him a "counterfeit" and publicity seeker. Pat Boone considers him "the greatest person since Jesus." Fundamentalist leader Bob Jones III says Graham "has done more harm to the cause of Christ than any other living man." Biographer William Martin calls him "an icon not just of American Christianity but of America itself...
...least two kinds of Le Carre admirers: the official reader, who turns the pages avidly to follow the byzantine and brilliant interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes in an ambiguous, secular...
...abused," claims Antwerp social worker Patsy Sorenson, who has helped more than 40 East European prostitutes escape. "The Georgian Mafia is the most violent: rapes, threats with guns and beatings." Equally notorious in Berlin and Prague: the so-called Chechen Boys, North Caucasians who reportedly deal in weapons, counterfeit money, drugs and women. Francine Meert, head of Le Nid, a Brussels aid group, says, "Many of the girls have broken teeth. They say they fell downstairs. But there are so many of them that either this business has the worst-maintained stairs in the world or these girls are being...
...leading a second invasion of Iraq? Some Iraqis think so. But this time, they say, the invading force is a flood of counterfeit bank notes -- Iraqi dinars, as well as bogus American $100 bills. In a letter last month to United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Baghdad accused the U.S. of making a bid to undermine Iraq's economy by directing efforts to smuggle in counterfeit money from several neighboring countries, including Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. At home, Iraqis also joke about being able to pick out "Israeli" and "Kurdish" dinars, according to where the notes...
...forgers of checks, the disorderly persons the possessors of class D substances with intent to distribute, the minors carrying alcoholic beverages, the passers of counterfeit bills, the right turners on red, the utterers of forged instruments--each gets his five minutes of attention. Only the lunch break punctuate the continuum...