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...THREE STUDENTS WHO STOLE A suitcase filled with cash from Sarah Edwards' classroom closet were pretty sure they had pulled a fast one. Granted, the cash was fake, but Edwards and her pupils had been using the money to learn some basic lessons in economics. Now, instead of studying supply and demand, the class was busy congratulating the thieves on their daring raid. Edwards' response? She held an auction -- only ersatz dollars allowed. The students' admiration swiftly evaporated as boxes of candy and toys went on the block and the pirates began buying up everything in sight. More effective than...
...Nowhere else, Richmond realized, were people expected to work without compensation. An A-plus could not be saved, or invested, or traded for something of value. That was how a teacher with a deep belief in the value of learning for its own sake began paying his students -- in fake money -- for completed assignments, good marks and perfect attendance. Students then used their "cash" to play a new game, a sort of life-size, walking version of Monopoly in which they bought, sold and mortgaged various "properties" around the classroom...
...operation begins with careful primping: the five men, all commandos in the Israeli army, put on their makeup. To create a dark complexion, they smear a thick, oily foundation cream on face, hands and arms. One of the soldiers pastes on a fake mustache; another paints a jagged scar on his cheek. To complete their disguise -- they are posing as Arab charcoalmakers today -- the men, clad in T shirts, jeans and sneakers, smudge their faces with soot...
Better still, after Davis discovers her ruse, he allows himself to be drawn into it; he hopes jealousy will warm his old girlfriend as his devotion never could. Before you know it, the fake marriage has turned into a troubled one, with the local minister providing earnest counseling and virtually the whole town worrying about those two nice kids trying to work out their problems...
Still, any number of obstacles could cause Perot to fade like a cheap suit. Right now he is seen as sincere (which calls to mind George Burns' famous crack, "Sincerity is everything: if you can fake that, you've got it made"). But Perot's feistiness could come to be seen as meanness, his buccaneerism as recklessness. Already some of his (few) articulated positions have been exposed as two-faced; on taxes, for example, he has alternately said over the years that he favors raising them and that he never would. He has played the system to great advantage...