Word: fakeness
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...resident visa (those detained have pleaded not guilty and await trial). Since the Amerasian Homecoming Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1987, some 23,000 Amerasians and 67,000 of their relatives have emigrated to the U.S. How many of those kin are fake may never be known...
...hired by FEMA would approach aid seekers who don't speak English, often elderly Chinese or recent immigrants, while they stood in line at the centers. The translators would tell applicants they were ineligible for aid and give them the business card of a confederate who would then provide fake documents for as much as $400. The fees would be split, according to the source, with the interpreters and sometimes with caseworkers at the centers...
...Sandwich Wall of Fame COURTNEY LOVE Mrs. Cobain spared a sanity test in lawsuit filed against her by ex-Nirvana band members. All parties agreed it would be a waste of time MICHAEL EISNER Top mouse sees Disney post $259 million earnings. New theme park attraction, Wall of Fake Breasts, certainly seems to have paid off Losers CHARLES MANSON Killer denied parole for 10th time. We?re surprised: Charles kept his cell tidy, flossed daily and wore a new string tie to the hearing TONYA HARDING Skating queen busted for drunk driving. Tonya is one of those celebrities whose every...
...Nongkham Baan, several men are wearing Buddhist robes, but they're not monks, says Thongdee Hawnjahn, a local housewife. "They make a lot of money begging, but it's wrong," she says. According to Thongdee, a bogus monk can net as much as $2,250 a month. Most fake monks come from villages like this in Chaiyaphum province in the poor northeast, and "poverty is what drives them to do it," says Sanitsuda Ekachai, a religion writer for the Bangkok Post. Some villages knowingly use bogus monks for ceremonies, she says, because, as many real monks gravitate to larger temples...
...billed as "the black Garbo." But based on her one starring role in a Hollywood film, McKinney was more the black Jean Harlow - pure impurity on screen. Even that's not quite fair to Nina (rhymes with Dinah), for Harlow's was essentially a comic persona, lacing fake baby talk into the braying of the gold digger who's already a little tired of the priapic effect she has on men. McKinney, though her signature character is frequently described as a child-woman, didn't play at being a grown-up. She was one: born to be, doomed...