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Fulkerson said at the hearing that the Massachusetts drivers license Ramos presented to CPD for identification purposes was fake...

Author: By Hera A. Abbasi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Say Janitor Admitted Gropings | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

...reckless charge" about President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. This posed an interesting test for the general, who pundits say has three things going for him: resume, resume and resume. But Jennings' question revealed the kind of experience Clark doesn't have and can't fake: the ability to deflect or diffuse a question that is bound to hurt you with someone, no matter how you answer it. Clark responded that he didn't know the facts of the case, but he said, "I've seen this charge bandied about a lot" and that Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: What Becomes A President Most? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...that I was such a bad actor I couldn't play myself--in a voice-over. So they hired Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) to play me, which, oddly, we both found insulting. Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise of the show. Then they set the show at VH1 instead of a magazine--and made Joel an incredibly unlikable jerk. It had morphed from my idea to an idea that kids who used to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How I Nearly Killed VH1 | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...phony phones are known to have surfaced in the U.S. And aviation-security experts say screening equipment now in use can detect the cell guns and other "improvised explosive devices," such as fake calculators, cameras, laptops and PDAs. To speed your next security check, you may want to leave some of those gadgets behind, along with your tool kit. Says a senior U.S. law-enforcement official: "Even a screwdriver could conceal a shotgun shell in a hollowed-out handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press M For Murder: Cell Phones That Kill | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...Chinese-character subtitles were not always of professional quality. When Tom Cruise says "I would happily kill you for free," it is translated as "At any time, I can back off.") Copies bought in Moscow and New Delhi even list addresses for the pirate "copyright holders." They are likely fake, added to help slip bootlegs past customs agents, Ellis says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Hollywood Robbery | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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