Word: hoaxes
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...Herald didn't know what to make of the call on Aug. 18. Someone was asking him if he wanted to go for a ride, under cover of darkness, and see some of the stolen Gardner loot. He said yes, "but as far as I knew this was a hoax, and I expected to be shown a velvet Elvis." They met in a deserted place. There were two cars, Mashberg says, one man in each. And they took him to a warehouse...
Harvey Jacobs' American Goliath (St. Martin's; 346 pages; $24.95) celebrates the long and glorious tradition of deception with an inspired novel based on the 1869 Cardiff Giant hoax...
...thought it might be a hoax because I got the call from a local news station," said Chu in an interview with The Crimson last night...
Earlier this year, the Canadian company Bre-X created a scandal when it reported that the 200 million oz. of gold it had "discovered" were a hoax. That may not be all bad: investors don't have much use for the stuff anyway. Recently Australia, the world's third largest producer, confirmed the sale of about two-thirds of its holdings. The $1.87 billion gold dump followed sell-offs by Belgium and the Netherlands and reports that others would follow. Australia's sale sent the price sinking to $314.60 per troy oz., a 12-year low, before it recovered...
...guilty verdict they had awaited for two years, an Oklahoma City survivor said last week, "wasn't enough." Would the death penalty be enough? For a crime this extreme, can anything be enough? The survivors know that "closure" is a cruel hoax, that the hole McVeigh created in their lives can't be filled by court proceedings, verdicts, even executions. Perhaps that is why a surprising number of them emerged this week to say they oppose death for McVeigh and believe they will heal faster if he is spared. No research indicates that survivors are more "satisfied" or that their...