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...Driving out in an old Cutlass with $20,000 and a dream, scraping by in tatty chinos and beat-up shoes. It's as close as the son of a President can get to calling himself a self-made man. The details may be true, but the message is bogus, because it ignores Bush's extraordinary family connections. He tried hard to be a regular guy but wasn't; he was famously frugal--"so tight he damn near squeaked," says a colleague--but didn't really need money. Rich friends of his father backed his business ventures...
Later, as Israel's policies became more controversial, the Holocaust was left as "virtually the only common denominator of American Jewish identity in the late 20th century." It was dragooned in support of such Jewish preoccupations as the (bogus, claims Novick) "new anti-Semitism" of the 1970s and the real (but bloodless) threat of intermarriage. Its appeal to Americans at large grew as the nation's post-Vietnam mood turned dystopian and identity politics put a premium on victimhood. The best example of the resulting crossover appeal was the influential nbc mini-series Holocaust in 1978, intensively promoted by Jewish...
...Alice is asked in the hospital. "I don't know anyone," she replies. Marber, who doubles as the director, places his characters in pools of light surrounded mostly by darkness. Their isolation is symbolized further by the play's most startling and curious scene: Dan lures Larry into a bogus rendezvous by posing as a sluttish girl in an Internet chat room, their cyberencounter typed out on a giant computer screen onstage...
...entirely different matter for Nathans, employing an utterly bogus rationale, to prevent 1,600 first-years from organizing or participating in a valid social activity. Not only does it stifle Harvard's already impoverished social life, but it seems to represent a condescending and overly paternalistic attitude on the part of the Dean of Freshmen...
...airlines reply that the scanners don't always catch the bogus tickets. But last week British Airlines--one airline that does scan--caught a man who was flying from Miami to London and trying to get a $26,000 refund for seven tickets. A scan revealed that four were stolen, part of a batch of 24,000 taken from Hudson Holidays in Elmwood Park, Ill., in December 1996. "It adds money laundering to the list of crimes the stolen tickets are being used for," says Little...