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Many critics note that Williams' performance is remarkably restrained and, if nothing else, acknowledge his good intentions: "This is the kind of bogus production only completely sincere but misguided individuals can come up with" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to see clips from the film.)
Sixty percent of these cases involve bogus Medicare billing.
Now that they have conquered the House Democrats with bogus pedophile charges, House Republicans are siccing the tactic against the White House, which still objects to the overtime provision.
Henry Lyons resigned as president of the largest black American religious body, the National Baptist Convention USA . He had been convicted of racketeering and grand theft for 1) selling bogus membership lists to companies that sought access to black consumers; and 2) stealing donations intended to rebuild burned black churches.
There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.
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