Word: fakeness
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...only makes the show's facetiousness more glaring. "Why do they have to be so mean?" Tracy cries, lamenting that she's not more popular. "I'm teasing my hair as high as I can!" No one wants Hairspray to be Les Miz, but real emotion is better than fake, and sometimes an audience needs more than just a big tease...
...heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, "Response to al Qaeda: Roll back." Clarke's proposals called for the "breakup" of al-Qaeda cells and the arrest of their personnel. The financial support for its terrorist activities would be systematically attacked, its assets frozen, its funding from fake charities stopped. Nations where al-Qaeda was causing trouble--Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Yemen--would be given aid to fight the terrorists. Most important, Clarke wanted to see a dramatic increase in covert action in Afghanistan to "eliminate the sanctuary" where al-Qaeda had its terrorist training camps and bin Laden...
...shows that much more unintentionally poignant.) Couples hook up--mostly, it seems, as a performance for the audience--trash-talk each other and move on. "I don't understand some of the women," says Barberie. "There was one who got in a hot tub with this guy--big fake boobs, takes her top off, has him feel her boobs. Then they interview her afterward and ask if she'd go out with him again? 'Oh, absolutely...
...question on many minds is whether Kim Jong Il, who has a history of trading friendly relations and empty promises for monetary assistance, is merely giving the world another head fake. His market reforms, according to skeptics, are designed not to liberalize the economy but to control the informal black markets that burgeoned during the famine, when the government could not feed everybody...
...things your wife won't." Mystery hackers had sabotaged the site, which U.S. and foreign counterterrorism experts say is maintained by al-Qaeda backers with access to propaganda produced by the group's top leaders. The hackers linked al-Neda (the Call) to pornography sites and later installed a fake site in its place. Al-Neda typically addresses the merits of jihad and offers tips on keeping operations secret. An audiotaped statement on the site last month from al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith included new threats against the U.S. It also suggested that Abu Ghaith, who was assumed...