Word: canard
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...about putting himself in any available limelight, from Vanity Fair and Paris Match to the pop-culture talk show Everybody's Talking About It. "BHL has learned the lessons of Dubya: pile it on from the first day," hissed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. "Hit the masses with shock and awe." Lévy claims he couldn't care less about his image, only the books. He defends French intellectuals for being right when governments were wrong: in the 1930s against fascism, in the 1950s against France's colonial presence in Algeria, in the 1970s against...
...Democrat, has signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee stating that the release of their staff’s confidential memorandum to the Solicitor General would be unprecedented and severely damaging to the professionalism and efficacy of the office. The Times has also reported that the unsubstantiated canard being floated by one disgruntled and partisan former colleague criticizing the quality of Estrada’s work in the Solicitor’s General office was contradicted by Estrada’s chief, the Democratic Solicitor General at the time...
...equality days, used to be called Gentleman’s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would assume that Harvard demanded constant academic brilliance in order to remain within its exclusive ranks. Let’s destroy this canard once and for all: You do not need to work nearly as hard once you’re here as you did to get in. The swollen envelope that came during senior year of high school was an invitation to relax for four plus years en route to Commencement. Moreover...
...attacks left both countries searching for a response. India has, in a sense, given the militants cover to claim their motive as redress for earlier mistreatment, without mentioning Kashmir. New Delhi insisted this was a terrorist canard?the latest investigations suggest the temple assailants, both Pakistani, had probably arrived by train from Jammu and Kashmir that same afternoon?but it still clouds the picture of the country's enemies and leaves the door open to additional attacks, and potential retaliation. Furthermore, it puts Vajpayee in an increasingly tight spot between the international community and the hard-core elements...
...seen this before: man escapes the amoral city to rediscover his humanity in the country, where decent folk live. (Didn't David Lynch and South Park kill that canard?) It would be forgivable if the show were better written, like the WB's wholesome but sassy mother-daughter comedy Gilmore Girls. Most unfortunate is Everwood's narrator, the town school-bus driver, who's in the Bagger Vance tradition of the wise black man put on earth to comment on the white stars' spiritual healing. And for every flash of Gilmore-esque zippy dialogue, there's a groaner. When Brown...