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...authorities tackle crime. Right now, they spend a lot of their energy sorting out who is who in the community because illegals present local police with a bewildering maze of identities. The illegals of Beardstown work under one name and go to church under another. Parents give their kindergartners fake names to use in school. "We are absolutely unable to identify our own people," says Walters. It sounds counterintuitive, but with immigration, forgiving a crime may be the best way to restore law and order...
...ludicrous sequence that, if you believe what you see, shows off his 495-pound bench press, 120 mile per hour tennis serve, motivational schlock, and ballroom dance moves. As other blogs piled on, word spread fast—and faster still when we reported on his shady consulting firm, fake charity, and partially plagiarized book about the Holocaust. All that Aleksey Vayner had wanted was a job at Goldman Sachs. Instead, by Monday, he became the most scrutinized student celebrity since Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 “internalized” another author’s novels...
...says Shawn Liu ’07, who co-authored two comic strips with Ravishankara and has known him since their high school days in Boulder, Colo. Ravishankara’s films thus far range from comedic shorts satirizing the YouTube phenomenon to a fiction film about robbers wearing fake mustaches. The artist says he aspires to create things that are fun but with purpose. “Who cares if a million people watch your movies if you’re not making the stuff that you enjoy,” he says. “I would like...
...Stadium. That’s when it became clear to Lehigh fans that it wasn’t just the quarterbacks that had the ability to beat them through the air—the wideouts could do it, too. Sophomore receiver Chris Sanders proved that on a 32-yard fake reverse touchdown pass to Corey Mazza with 28 seconds to go before the intermission. “They always have a trick or two up their sleeve,” said Mountain Hawks coach Andy Coen. “The timing of the calling of those plays is obviously very...
...history class this past semester, my section leader made us do one of those fake pedagogical exercises where we bring in a piece of clothing or an object and talk about why it’s an emblem of our identity. Most of the girls brought pieces of jewelry; one guy brought a shirt he received when he won a crew race. Since I forgot to bring an actual thing—I would have brought my skateboard (just kidding)—I had to talk about the enormous headphones that happened to be sitting on my neck. Suddenly...