Word: fakeness
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...10th grade. Unfortunately for the author, while his precious “digital l00t” may in fact have real market value, all the gold doubloon clipart in the world can’t fix his social deficiencies or bad breath. On the plus side, a book about fake ambitions, repressed fantasies and the inability to function in the real world probably will sell great over at MIT. The Cult of iPod by Leander Kahney I felt embarrassed holding this book at the COOP, because the cover—a bird’s eye view of someone with...
...Square cafe on JFK Street requires its employees to read a handbook on when to card and how to spot fake IDs, according to employee Mike Jones. He said workers there were required to ask anyone who looks younger than 30 for identification—and two forms of it if the customer doesn’t show a Mass. identification card or a U.S. passport...
About 20 percent of stores across the country sell alcohol to minors, said Barbara B. Harrington, the state executive director for MADD. “There is this myth that youth only get alcohol through the use of fake IDs,” she said...
...conventional wisdom that Clinton has been too careful and calculating in this campaign. That charge is often expressed as a question about her "authenticity" - that foolish journalistic cliché meant to denote the appearance of informality and spontaneity. But authenticity is not the same as courage. You can fake authenticity. You can't fake courage. Clinton has always had a problem with authenticity. Her laugh, sometimes awkwardly manufactured for public use yet always delightfully raucous in private, is Exhibit A. But her plans on the big domestic-policy issues - health care and energy - have been courageous and detailed, more sophisticated...
...pair of well-furnished houses near the town of Cinisi, just west of Palermo. The senior Lo Piccolo, sporting a leather jacket and a mane of white hair and beard, shared only a vague resemblance with the most recent composite sketch. On the premises, police found weapons, cash, fake identification and the tiny handwritten notes that Provenzano also utilized for communicating among mob bosses. Italian media report that the younger Lo Piccolo, who himself had been on the lam for more than a decade, repeatedly called out his love to his father as he was being taken away in handcuffs...