Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Final clubs, Quad parties, fake IDs—it is through these techniques that most Harvard students gain their appreciation and understanding of beer. But one group of freshman is taking a more scholarly approach to their alcohol education in the new freshman seminar, “Principles of Industrial Fermentation: Beer, Wine, Bioethanol, and Beyond...
...will be distributing 210,000 copies “strategically around the country” along with the real magazine, according to Ross E. Arbes ’08 and Hayes H. Davenport ’08-’09, who edited the spoof. The parody features fake letters to the editor—“RAAARRRRR!!!” comments a “Literate Bear”—and a facetious preview of the Beijing Olympics, presenting new events like “Dragon Catching” and “Overpopulation...
...being escorted to the police vehicle, he kicked an officer, causing a laceration in his leg. Wu then kicked through a window of the police cruiser. At the police station, he kicked a “Miranda Warning” poster off the wall. HUPD confiscated a fake Michigan driver’s license. During his last hearing at the Cambridge District Court, Wu was denied pre-trial probation. Wu’s friends said that the incident did not reflect Wu’s normal behavior, “We didn’t believe what happened the first...
...reliable source tells me you bribed a customs official to enter the country," a Nicaraguan customs agent-turned-journalist demanded of the British man who slipped her $10 the day before to speed up his fake immigration paperwork...
Silverglate voiced his concern over how changing moods across the country, especially in relation to fears of terrorism, have influenced charges are brought against criminals, a major theme in the book he is currently writing. Silverglate cited an MIT student arrested for a fake Styrofoam bomb in Logan Airport and a professor accused of bioterror in protest...