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...Blondie, now in the second year of his 13-year sentence? He remains a stranger to remorse: "We didn't invent the system, or the ways to scam it to do the job. We inherited it. We were its custodians. Now others...
...NANNY: FEDS SLAP FINES IN RED SMUT SCAM...
...genuine artificial intelligence with a crude front end (you type as if chatting on America Online). She is also spellbinding. Indeed, our conversation with Julia was so realistic my girls, convinced that a carbon-based life-form was doing the real typing, insisted the whole thing was a scam. "Do you like cats?" Julia asked us. "Nope," I typed back, nudging Zoe and Ella to watch as I tripped up the primitive program. "I like pizza." "Great," replied Julia. "I go crazy for pizza." Doh! Next, Ella, the bawdiest member of her first-grade class (she can sing virtually...
This is not a bad premise for a cautionary science-fiction tale. And anyone who has cheated on an expense account can identify with a character like Hawke's, working a much bigger scam on a bureaucracy quiveringly alert to genetic impostors. A lost eyelash, a bit of exfoliated skin left on his keyboard could undo him--especially when the cops, led by a very querulous Alan Arkin, suddenly descend on his facility and, as they investigate a murder, start subjecting everyone's detritus to genetic spot checks...
...Sidetracked by cocaine and interior decorating, she dropped out of her acting studies at the University of Kansas. Then she read L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, which Alley believes changed her life by making her take responsibility for herself. "I thought, O.K., this is either the world's biggest scam or it's fabulous. I stopped working, quit my job, and I drove my car to California to be a Scientologist...