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...Watai's talk of marriage plans has aroused suspicions that it might merely be a ploy to prevent Fischer from being deported. But Watai swears it's true love. Likewise, she dismisses as "untrue" recent press reports that claim Fischer already has a wife and child in the Philippines whom he sees every few months. While legal experts say marrying Watai might substantially improve Japan's willingness to let Fischer stay in the country, Fischer's application is now caught in a catch-22: one of the documents he needs to submit to get married in Japan is a valid...
...other hand, most of those polled--53%--were more inclined to agree with another probable Kerry voter in Davenport. "You just nowadays can't take a chance," said Helen Eberle, 78, a retired teacher. "It's hard for us to believe that they would use that as a political ploy. I just don't think they'd play around with that...
...manner and said, 'You talk [about what Booth had seen in the Walled City], maybe you [end up] like this.'" He also sees a glitzier side of Hong Kong, the shopping paradise. "I knew I could not just walk into one of these shops so I worked the obvious ploy, waiting until a tourist couple entered and tagging along camouflaged as their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas...
...asked the network for bumps in their pay. Eads never arrived on the set the first day of filming, despite having signed a letter promising CBS that he would show up for work, whereas Fox failed to sign the letter altogether. The network, in a heck of a negotiating ploy, fired them. For advice on how to find their way back from hit-show has-beendom, we suggest they get CSI: Miami compatriot David Caruso on a conference call, like...
...stop the hate crimes or discrimination against BGLT people across the United States, it has certainly demonstrated to me that assumptions are what have divided this country. President Bush’s rhetoric of “traditional values” is nothing more than a deceptive ploy to appease a select number of religious zealots and conservative politicos...