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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those searching on Craigslist.org for an apartment in Cambridge, she was “Linnie,” “Lin,” or just “L.” Each persona came with its own e-mail address and sob story. Now Vaghar faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of two counts of larceny...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Extension Student Nabbed for Web Fraud | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

...increasingly became despondent about his children's future. Jenkins was particularly distressed when the government enrolled the girls in Pyongyang's Foreign Language College, an lite institution believed to be a training ground for intelligence operatives. "I knew what they were trying to do," says Jenkins, starting to sob. "They wanted to turn them into spies. My daughters, they could pass as South Korean. There are lots of children of American G.I.s and South Korean mothers in South Korea. No one would doubt them for a second." Since he believed he was locked forever inside North Korea, he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In From the Cold | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...increasingly became despondent about his children's future. Jenkins was particularly distressed when the government enrolled the girls in Pyongyang's Foreign Language College, an ?lite institution believed to be a training ground for intelligence operatives. "I knew what they were trying to do," says Jenkins, starting to sob. "They wanted to turn them into spies. My daughters, they could pass as South Korean. There are lots of children of American G.I.s and South Korean mothers in South Korea. No one would doubt them for a second." Since he believed he was locked forever inside North Korea, he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Mistake | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...including his aging mother. Asked how his daughters are faring, Jenkins concedes that he isn't sure. "I just spent 25 days in jail. I haven't really gotten a chance to talk to them that much yet. But I think they will be all right." He starts to sob. "I made a big mistake of my life, but getting my daughters out of there, that was one right thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Mistake | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...able to convince a woman that her son frequents a nude beach in “Sol’s Nude Beach.” Equally jaw-dropping, but hardly side-splitting, is that a lawyer stayed on the phone for upwards of two minutes listening to a foreigner sob about being beaten for delivering a pizza to the wrong door in “Pizza Lawyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

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