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...CALIF.) His office ordered all state agencies to display the Governor's photo on their websites. One click and surfers are directed to Davis' home page, which offers biographies with personal photos, speeches and a link to the home page of his wife. Critics say it's a campaign ploy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want My Gov TV! | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...possibly could have done this. I was in the bottom of a bottle, looking around and imagining what happened, and placed myself in the spot." As it would turn out, however, the very memory of that confession had been suggested by the police to his ex-wife as a ploy to get what they hoped would be a true confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skakel Trial: The Case of the Tutor's 'Confession' | 5/11/2002 | See Source »

...gets down to basic honesty and integrity. Some managements have a strong sense of that, and others don't. Combine that with a flexible moral framework with stock options, and over a period of time the focus has increasingly shifted to how rich can you get, how fast? The ploy is to keep expectations rising. But at some point the business won't support the expectations, and that's when the cheating starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast: Is It Time To Let Go? | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...other story in Murder by Numbers is a premeditated crime committed by two intellectual teenagers. Their ploy is rife with philosophical overtones relevant to the impersonality of today’s society. Ryan Gosling plays Richard Haywood, one of the “cool” kids in high school who lives on daddy’s credit card and can’t help attracting copious numbers of women. His partner in crime is his physics tutor Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt II). Justin is a classic quiet kid, skilled on a computer but is not especially outgoing or friendly...

Author: By Ian P. Campbell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bullock Dials ‘M’ For Mediocre | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

...discussion that has been evolving over the e-mail lists of various student groups at Harvard, some have speculated that the company’s actions were a deliberate ploy to garner media attention...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students To Protest New Clothing Line | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

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