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...just because the brothel story is bogus doesn’t mean Harvard and the City of Cambridge don’t have some unusual laws...
...believe it would implicate Chirac, because the conviction stems from an illicit jobs scheme run out of Paris' City Hall from 1988 to 1995, when Chirac was mayor and Juppé his finance director. The stratagem, one of half a dozen Chirac-era setups now being investigated, allegedly provided bogus municipal jobs to seven officials of Chirac's Gaullist Party, whose salaries were funneled back into party coffers. French parties long relied on such illegal schemes for funding, but until last week few political heavyweights had been convicted for it. But Juppé's stiff sentence may mark a turning...
...letters warning Internet service providers about misbehaving users, but its main weapon is the decoy file, which it dispatched by the tens of thousands. Downloaders spent hours pulling down the bait, only to find a mess of ones and zeros. Bored wannabe pirates added to the mass distraction, posting bogus files to get attention and create havoc. The week before the film's release, TIME staffers found online Samurais that turned out to be Scary Movie 3, Santa Clause 2 and a porn flick...
...country murdering union leaders against the wishes of the companies they are seeking contracts from. Union leaders such as Adolfo Munera, who just a week after winning a case in Colombia’s highest court forcing a Coke bottler to re-hire him after he was cleared of bogus criminal charges used to fire him in 1997, have been murdered. Coke has made no signs of breaking their close ties with its Colombian bottling plants...
...France in the late 1930s). The notion that the Kim regime has absolutely no intention of ever giving up its nuclear capability?at any price, for any reason?is too terrible to face. Better to play pretend, even if this means being bilked in return for fake "breakthroughs" and bogus "accords...