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   From: rold_gold@hotmail.com   
      
   "Timothy Horrigan"  wrote in message   
   news:80981f23.0402151509.53a462ef@posting.google.com...   
   > "Tarver Engineering"  wrote in message   
   news:...   
   > >   
   > > Miss Polier, a journalist who once worked for Associated Press, is a   
   > > graduate of Columbia University, New York. She apparently met the   
   > > senator as she was beginning her media career.   
   >   
   > For what it's worth, there is no Alex Polier in the 2004 edition of   
   > the Columbia alumni directory (which covers all living alumni up to   
   > the Class of 2002.)  To be absent from the directory, she either has   
   > to be dead (but she supposedly is alive), or to have graduated in 2003   
   > (which doesn't leave enough time for the story to happen the way it is   
   > told here), or to have graduated from Barnard College rather than from   
   > one of the university's other schools (possible, but normally Barnard   
   > alumnae just say they graduated from Barnard, even technically Barnard   
   > grads get Columbia University degrees.) Or, she has to be a liar.  Or   
   > she has to be nonexistent.   
   >   
   > If she does exist and is 24 years old, she was born in 1979 or 1980,   
   > and would normally have gotten her undergrad degree in 2001.   
      
   Good job!   
   Too bad the press doesn't do their homework like you have.   
      
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