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...Wall, the Forbidden City, weird and wonderful new architecture, a slew of museums celebrating China's millennia of culture and history. The list is long. But even the most academically inclined out-of-town visitor invariably ends up asking - somewhat sheepishly - whether I can give them directions to the "Fake Market." There are actually several of these, each a four- or five-story building jammed with stalls selling everything from shoes to toys, handbags, DVD players, watches, pearls, electronics, sports equipment. Almost everything in these establishments bears a famous name brand, often with supporting literature. There are Rossignol ski jackets...
Every Iraqi's flight is a boon for people smugglers. Sweden grants asylum freely, but Iraqi refugees need to get to the country first; for that, they need a fake European passport. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports - "red passports," as the Iraqis call them. Thus equipped, it's into the E.U. and on to Sweden. Suad Turky, a 29-year-old Shi'ite religious student from Baghdad, paid a smuggler $10,000 to secure a false passport and a ticket to Stockholm...
...lights. (Or to college students having—gasp!—fun, for that matter. But we suppose terrorists, or reckless advertisers, could hide bombs in kegs at the Harvard-Yale tailgate if students weren’t required to wear pink bracelets.) In the aftermath of the fake fake attacks, Jan. 31, 2007 will always be remembered as the most harrowing uneventful day in Boston’s history. And the day when masses of angry Bostonians grudgingly turned their televisions to “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” They simply couldn?...
Marra referred to last March’s fake housing announcement e-mail which informed all freshmen that they had been placed in Pforzheimer House, providing his cell phone number as the number to call to apply for a housing reassignment...
...February night in 2005, Doe and her husband John, also a fake name, were walking when, they say, three plainclothes policemen demanded John's ID. The Does claim the stop was unprovoked. The cops say John was urinating on the street...