Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...important thing is that he responded. A lot of guys, you get on them at halftime, and then they keep playing the same way. Drew responded tonight.” With Harvard trailing by one with less than two minutes remaining, Housman shook his defender with a fake step right and drove weak-side, finishing with an acrobatic layup in traffic while drawing a foul. The three-point play gave the Crimson a 77-75 edge at the 1:40 mark and the squad never trailed again. Housman isn’t new to second-half surges...
...game and silenced the crowd by nailing a three off a feed from freshman guard Jeremy Lin. After a rare long-distance miss from Big Red assassin Ryan Wittman, Goffredo followed with his seventh—and most crucial—three-pointer of the night, using an up-fake to get Wittman in the air, then stepping to the side to calmly drill the triple and put Harvard up by three.Four straight free throws on the next two Cornell possessions gave the advantage back to the hosts, at 75-74 with 1:45 left. The Crimson answered by running...
...smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports--red passports, as the Iraqis call them, which contain the refugees' real photos but use other people's names. "Daniel," 23, a Christian Iraqi student sitting in a Stockholm caf, said he bought a fake Iraqi passport for $300 in Baghdad and used it to take a smuggler's ride through Syria to Turkey. In Turkey a smuggler traded Daniel's Iraqi passport for a false European passport for $8,000--paid by his parents in Baghdad. Then he hid in the back...
...Claire Toma quickly offers of the new restrictions while standing in front of the Avalon. Her friend Tiffany J. Woo agrees.“It sucks,” Woo says. “They should just check our IDs at the bar. This just encourages people to get fake ones.”Clubgoer Maren F. Difonzo favors the ban. “I agree with [the restrictions],” she says. “I’m 23. I don’t want little kids playing with me. There isn’t any drama...
...production of the show.“They portrayed me very favorably,” he says. “On these shows, they want to have people that you like, and people that you don’t like. They try to create characters.”FAKE BATTLES, REAL ROMANCESDern’s teammate, bikini model Cecille Gahr, was one such character. As the show’s villain, Gahr was depicted as little more than a bitchy blonde who at one point even went so far as to disown the show for its contrived and artificial nature.Dern...