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...facts" (like the size of the graduating class in Currier House) that are so easy to determine that no one in their right mind would lie about them, then juxtaposing them with the latent skepticism that all students mindlessly direct toward the administration, and then coupling them with a bogus "computer program" whose workings are sufficiently ambiguous, you have just started a rumor that requires no more effort from you whatsoever. Before you can say "I'm not sure if it's true, but..." at least four hundred students will start looking for ways to cut those extra five people...
...filing equally believable, contradictory documents in legal offices across the country. Without Malcolm's intelligent and clear prose as a beacon, anyone would be lost trying to understand the intricate activities presented in the work: shuttling funds among bank accounts, filing counterfeit documents, forging signatures, inventing associates, and selling bogus companies to a gang of equally disreputable businessmen...
...will bump along toward the bogus destination called "closure." The two parties will resume their Balkan comity; Republicans may even learn not to think "liar" every time the President speaks. And after my indignation stops screaming, perhaps I can learn to be civil as well. My fury will burn itself down to coals and ashes. But thanks to Bill Clinton, something in public life seems changed--and something else permanently lost...
Well, the media charge is laughably bogus. Yet what else is there to do but grasp at scapegoats when, in the blink of an eye, the discussion moves from "Can Clinton Survive?" to whether you can? At the time the intern story broke in January, Gingrich was lost in an issue-free wilderness: the balanced budget and welfare reform had been co-opted, and tax cuts were a diminishing dream. Gingrich looked to Monica as his deliverance from having to come up with a new, new Republican revolution. Oh, the eager, summer-in-Washington look of her, the goofy beret...
...Emmys and this season's still shorter frocks seem to indicate a frame even more devoid of substance. When Flockhart missed a day of work recently, idle minds began speculating that it was because of an eating disorder. Reps for Flockhart and Fox, McBeal's network, call the story "bogus," and Flockhart went on L.A. radio to insist that she is robust and well fed. Viewers will have to stay tuned to see how the story fills...