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...shop that he and a friend had patronized believed they had received bogus U.S. traveler's checks and alerted the police. A raid on the homes of Hamdani and his pal turned up an array of big-screen TVs and other luxury goods, $600,000 in forged American Express and Thomas Cook checks, a state-of-the-art counterfeiting operation complete with silk-screen equipment, ink stamps like those used by consular officials, and stacks of high-grade fake passports and other identity documents. Hamdani was tagged as the suspected mastermind. A Pakistani emigre, he had a rap sheet stretching...
Perhaps the most truthful way to express that moral confusion is with a lie, a notion Kaufman explores not only in this script, which he wrote in 1997, but also in Adaptation. Kaufman has never met Barris and says he doesn't know if the CIA stories are true. "The first thing everybody asked me was, 'Is this true?'" Kaufman says. "That question interests me, whether in fiction or nonfiction." For the CIA's part, the only comment spokesman Paul Nowack would make was, "It's ridiculous. It's absolutely not true...
Here, the themes of the film emerge, as these individuals express what Moss calls “a kind of continuousness of values between then and now.” The film tries to reject the conventional portrayal of the hippie-gone-capitalist, instead suggesting that the river that embodied their youthful freedom still directs their lives in different ways...
...When we leave in June, we shall miss everyone here more than we can express, but we are confident that the special place that Currier has been will go on being...the ‘best kept secret’ in the College,” they wrote in their e-mail to the House yesterday...
...three previous terms as speaker. When a referendum instructing representatives to vote against Finneran for speaker appeared on the ballot in 18 districts last year, all 18 passed it—but only three of those representatives voted against him. The fact that the other 15 representatives disregarded the express wish of their constituents is a testament to Finneran’s authoritarian, vehemently selfish style—which has fostered about as much open democratic discourse in the House as Stalin did in the Politburo...