Word: hoax
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...catch? Solomon was a hoax, perpetrated by serial prankster Joey Skaggs. It's not hard to see the story's appeal. After a socially and racially divisive trial, many Americans--especially non-African Americans--believed that 12 Angelenos had rejected irrefutable DNA evidence to set a murderer free. Solomon played to a machine-age civic fantasy: a bloodless robot, immune to gambits and race cards, that would dispense justice like a candy machine. (Nor is it only a conservative wish; the anti-death penalty crowd has embraced DNA evidence to reopen capital cases...
...director Vincent Gallo of his Buffalo 66 star Christina Ricci, "She was okay when she wasn't drunk on the set. I think she's an alcoholic-either that or she was on cough syrup the whole time."... I think Garth Brooks' recent retirement is a bit of a hoax. He's still desperate to break that Beatles' sale record, so he'll lay low and then pull a "comeback" stunt in a couple of years to massive acclaim. How do I know? Because during his "retirement," his record company will rerelease each of his six albums and bring...
...last time, in 1996, was unappetizing enough. But something in me this year has snapped. The debate almost had me throwing things at the television. The mere sight and sound of these two men has grown odious; the election has come to seem the dead end of some massive hoax...
...Rafael Shaoulian littered financial bulletin boards with unfounded hype that enabled him to sell a stock and pocket $173,000. At 23, Mark Jakob drove down the stock of Emulex with a phony Internet report. He bought with a vengeance after the decline and made $241,000 when the hoax was discovered and the stock rebounded...
...HOAX Shares of Emulex Corp. plunged some 67% last Friday, after a fake press release appeared on the Internet Wire site. It was soon picked up by other media, and the rout was on. The stock recovered, but some investors were burned. The lesson: if the news is sensational, check the source or the company's website. Second lesson: once a panic starts, if you're not out first, you're toast...