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The LAT off-lead is the confession by long-time Yeltsin advisor, Anatoly Chubais, that Russia "conned" the international community out of nearly $20 billion in loans by hiding the severity of the country's fiscal problems.
' " This is McCain's greatest triumph: He has conned the media into disbelieving his political calculations and accusing him instead of principle.
It was a pretty dismaying experience, straight out of Les Misérables : the tattered crowd, the forest of groping hands, the healthy-looking young guys who conned their way to seconds or thirds while the quiet or confused went home empty-handed.
(The Colorado abortion vote is a powerful argument against those who say that initiatives are dangerous because they are too crude and voters are too easily conned.
Two years ago, Smiley published an essay in Harper's --a manifesto, really--claiming that readers have been conned into seeing Huckleberry Finn as the "definitive" American novel when it's actually a mess and a moral disaster.