Word: duped
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...verifiable results. There's suspense first, of course, but it's tolerable suspense--nothing like waiting for Congress to vote on campaign-finance legislation or sitting through a year of Enron hearings to find out whether the poker-faced Ken Lay is history's biggest con man or sorriest dupe. It was nip and tuck there for a while before Bode Miller finally took the silver in the men's combined downhill, but only for a while...
...glory of the gold, the silver, the bronze--well, sort of. "You wouldn't expect real gold, silver and bronze, would you?" chortles one shameless rule bender. "The medals issued to winning cheaters are actually pot metal, painted. So afterward, when they sell them to some unwitting dupe for big bucks, it'll be a memory to last a lifetime...
...SHOW ME THE MONEY: Kirkus cracks up over "Money Wanders" by Eric Dezenhall (Dunne/St. Martin's; February), giving it a starred review. "Money may wander but attention never strays in this comic debut. Dezenhall nimbly skewers the Internet, journalists, politicians, and public relations spinmeisters and their power to dupe huge numbers of people...Thoughtful, unpretentious, filled with laugh-out-loud funny scenes and delightfully realized characters. Place your bets on this winner...
Walker knew what he was doing. His avowed support for the Sept. 11 attacks and his earlier approval for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole show he was no Osama-come-lately or unwitting Taliban dupe. One feels sorry for his parents, but sympathy should stop there. Walker is old enough to make his own decisions, and now he richly deserves to face the consequences...
...think there’s a possibility I had been lied to by someone I had no reason to doubt. It shook me up that someone could dupe so many people,” he said...