By Walter V. Robinson and Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff, 8/22/2002

"Edwards, according to many of his childhood friends, has a long history of embellishment, from claiming a role in a hit movie to boasting that he was a semipro hockey player."

PROFESSOR'S PAST IN DOUBT; DISCREPANCIES SURFACE IN CLAIM OF VIETNAM DUTY

Author(s):    Walter V. Robinson, GLOBE STAFF Date: June 18, 2001 Page: A1 Section: Metro/Region  "But an extensive public record review by the Globe, as well as the accounts of Ellis's friends from those years, contradict his assertions that he served in Vietnam."

UNTANGLING PAUL PARKS'S TALL TALES\ RECORDS CONTRADICT MORE WARTIME STORIES

Author(s):    Walter V. Robinson, and Thomas Farragher, Globe Staff  Date: October 22, 2000 Page: A1 Section: Metro/Region

"Why, some of Parks's friends wonder, would such a prominent figure - a former state secretary of education, Boston School Committee chairman, and vice president of the Boston NAACP chapter - resort to wholesale embellishments about events that occurred more than a half-century ago?"

RECORD SHOWS GORE LONG EMBELLISHING TRUTH

Author(s):    Walter V. Robinson and Michael Crowley, GLOBE STAFF   Date: April 11, 2000  "The mystery, even for Gore's friends, is why he has persistently embroidered a political resume and pedigree that shorn of embellishments are impressive by any measure."

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