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These days, when he isn't preaching or scam busting, Minkow delivers speeches on fraud to corporate officers, insurance companies, accountants and law-enforcement groups, often appearing in a bright orange prison jump suit. At Quantico, as his 150 student FBI agents scribbled notes, he walked through Fraud 101, explaining the psychology of the scam. "A lot of con men just want to please everyone," he says. He stresses that in a successful con game, appearances are everything. "After all," says Minkow, "fraud is nothing more than the skin of the truth stuffed with a lie." Spoken by the master...
...novel Oscar and Lucinda, two-time winner of the Booker Prize, all-around intelligent bloke?has lots of thoughtful ideas about modern Japanese culture, almost all of which, he comes to discover, are wrong. He's wrong about the symbolism of his son's favorite anim? series, Mobile Suit Gundam. He's wrong about the artistic motivation behind Japanese sword-making. And he's wrong about the otaku, the ultra-obsessive Japanese fans of everything from manga to pop idols, who turn out to have more dimensions than Carey, an Australian living in New York City, could ever have imagined...
...cultural borders. "We would not know the etiquette, how to sit, how to hold the scabbard or the hilt, how to slide the blade out by the back surface only. We were gaijin, capable of only hurting the swords or ourselves." An interview with Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of Mobile Suit Gundam and Charley's personal hero, devolves into a virtual stalemate, each side just missing the other...
...heart of Wrong About Japan. One of the writer's most persistent misunderstandings comes over the term otaku, which typically describes fans so devoted that they all but lose touch with the rest of the world. Carey sees a metaphor for the otaku in the characters of Mobile Suit Gundam?kids who fight battles from inside giant robots, alienated from everything outside them. As Charley interacts more fluently with the ticket machines on the Tokyo subway than with the people around him, it's not hard to understand what Carey fears. But he's wrong again?a writer for Gundam...
...technically still on the books, Frase said—although it would be unlikely for the Pentagon to take any action against Harvard Law School—the only institution so far to bar recruiters from campus in response to the Third Circuit ruling—until the FAIR suit is resolved...