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...years as a politician, John McCain is still a lousy faker. He can make do with the teleprompter, and he has learned in recent months how to stay on message. He can certainly get the crowds going. But there is always something a bit awkward about his delivery, something stilted when he is handling a prepared speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Last Town Hall: Back in His Element | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...sexuality, there's an addictive component to it. And when you have an addiction, you struggle with it. But people have taken his tendency to have affairs as this expression of bad character, of an anti-social character; he's a liar, he's a cheater, he's a faker. But by every measure, he has a fine character, a fundamentally altruistic personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bill Clinton On the Couch | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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Author: By Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reading Period Characters, or: ‘I Know That Guy!’ | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Austin's upscale grocery store, Central Market, beams out recordings of predatory bird screeches. But the city of San Antonio is considering going one step further, hiring California-based Ronin Air Falconry Services, to send African Augur hawks and Faker falcons into the skies over the city's popular Riverwalk area. The plan is that the predator birds will scare the grackle flocks away from the tourists, allowing them to focus on margaritas, not Mother Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Most Fowl? | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...There was still plenty of performance art, but none of it was frantic, and none of it felt forced. The fatherhood, the religion, the aging—it’s only turned Beck into someone who knows how to relax and be an expert performer. Not a faker, not an imitator, and not a producer of artifice. A musicmaker. A dreamer of dreams. Or something...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let Doctor Hansen Rock You | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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