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Saturday, October 6, 2007 12:00 AM

Here's looking at you, "Kid"

Is 4-year-old Marla Olmstead a painting prodigy or the instrument of a hoax? "My Kid Could Paint That" asks fascinating questions about art, family and journalistic ethics.

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  • Saturday, October 6, 2007 11:19 PM

    PT Barnum would be proud

    Of this charade and also the guy who passed off piano recordings of other people as those of his dead wife. We are a society of suckers, we elected a psychopathic crypto-fascist as president, we spend $600 in a crazed frenzy on cell phones with unfinished software. We are in a war that was started on false pretenses and continues on a different set of false pretenses, where we don't know who the enemy is and we don't even know if we are winning or losing. We have "No Child Left Behind" which will produce an entire generation of test-taking kids with no ability to think critically. Welcome to the age of deceit, the sunset of our civilization.

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