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Chambers has now apologised for the "hurt" he's caused, admitted his "therapy" was a sham and – surprise surprise – confessed he had "conveniently omitted" his "own same-sex attractions".
"It just shows how hard times are these days but also how popular an employer Costa is," said area manager Sham Ramparia, to nobody's surprise.
Sham was the first course.
The specter of al-Qaeda-styled groups in Palestinian camps -- Fatah al-Islam in Nahr al-Bared and, to a lesser degree, Jund al-Sham in Ein al-Hilweh -- caught few by surprise here.
That's no surprise: The announcement punctuates a process that has been a sham, falling far short of the benchmarks laid out by a bipartisan group of experts (including one of us, Ms. Schneider) last fall for effective, credible congressional investigations.
The unit's lore is worthy of its own reality TV series — sham couples caught red-handed, yes, but also quirky ones whose authenticity surprised everyone.
The Bush administration should then not express surprise that Kim Jong Il dismissed the United States' most recent overtures as a "sham".
Still, it can hardly have been a surprise: similar media-friendly Palestinian events, including the camp set up at Bab al-Shams near Jerusalem, were tolerated by the Israelis for just a few days before being broken up last year.
But eyewitnesses in Majdal Shams said only a handful of Israeli soldiers were on duty on Sunday and were taken by surprise when more than 1,000 buses appeared on the Syrian side of the border.
