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...Guide," as he has dubbed himself, lavished much of that money on empty show. When rebel looters in Goma recently entered the President's local villa--a mansion Mobutu visited just once, but kept ready for his imminent return--they found a house full of plastic "marble" and fake antiques. Other expressions of his grandeur are not so hollow: he owns chateaus in Spain and Belgium, a town house in Paris and a horse ranch in Portugal. Such abuse of his country's strained wealth eventually turned him into an international pariah...
...fake people out, truly, that's the art," he said...
...year was 1988, and election fever had hit my middle school. Perhaps envious of the public schools that actually got to close on election day and proudly house voting booths, someone came up with the idea of transforming our cafeteria into a fake polling place, complete with actual levers to pull. Statements of platforms were distributed, and we watched and discussed the debates in detail. As election day approached, I weighted my choices carefully and was a little nervous when I got to school that...
...life of crime is not for the stupid, as Carlester Eric Robinson discovered after allegedly shoplifting at a Baltimore pharmacy. He ran onto the set of NBC's Homicide, where actors had just finished a scene and still had their fake guns drawn. "The guy looked around and dropped his bag," says RICHARD BELZER (Detective John Munch). "We all just looked at him. Then he realized it was TV and looked really embarrassed." Security guards handed him over to the real cops, who charged him with theft. His haul? Kodak film and Q-Tips...
...same time, Kingston has been labeled a radical feminist, a fake and a traitor to her Chinese heritage. But the popularity of her books is incontestable. These antinostalgic nonfiction memoirs recount the sometimes fantastical tales of her childhood. Many times, her own life-stories are intertwined with myth and story-telling, as if Kingston herself had a hard time distinguishing between the two. This melding of fact and fiction has brought criticism from some quarters, and praise from others...