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...past, someone would do a stepover and fake out everybody," including his own teammates, Coach George Ford said last week after the team's 5-2 victory over Wesleyan...
Nevertheless, in 1687, the son of the old sachem sold Gay Head to the governor of New York for 30 pounds. In response to many Indians' protest, the General Court declared the original order was a fake, and produced an Indian who claimed to have forged it, a decision that received little respect from the Indians...
...convertible den-bedroom-kitchen within and a showcase of accessories on the outside. Furnishings are usually elaborate, often splendid. Probably nine out of ten custom vans carry eight-track stereo, and crushed-velvet upholstery is not all that unusual. Neither are stained glass windows, wine racks, built-in television, fake fire places. Mirrors are very popular-on walls and ceilings. A few vans even boast chandeliers. Some rigs cost...
Only one of every 100 computer rip-offs is ever detected, according to an industry expert, although some reported frauds have been enormous. The biggest to date was the $2 billion Equity Funding scandal of 1973, in which 22 insurance company employees were convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million...
...word, Russian for a kind of middle-class tackiness, applied not only to the shibboleths and dashboard saints of popular culture but also to the works of Sigmund Freud - which he saw as an internal totalitarianism - and to the poetry of Ezra Pound, whom he called "that total fake...