Word: cheating
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...cadet will not "lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," according to West Point's honor code. "Here in everything we do, we talk of honor," says Colonel James Anderson, the master of the sword (director of physical education). When an instructor orders "Cease work" in an exam, cadets literally throw down their pencils, as if they had become instantly hot to the touch. A cadet tennis-squad player who hurls his racquet in a match is off the team...
...dream came to an abrupt halt last week. Dunbar, 42, was sentenced to five years in prison for tax fraud, having understated his earnings by some $32 million over a three-year period. That makes Dunbar the biggest tax cheat in IRS history. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel also placed him on five years' probation after he finishes his sentence and ordered him to pay the IRS what he owes in back taxes--an estimated $10 million--plus interest...
...cast McGwire as a lying cheat is grotesque. He has raised a lot of money for worthy causes, and his 1998 race with Sammy Sosa to break Roger Maris' single-season home-run record saved the sport of baseball. Whatever the outcome of the House committee hearings, McGwire will always be a hero...
...Stevens, whom she is first called upon to cure and to whom she is later sold, are far more effective than any of her more explicit sermonizing (e.g., “Whites always telling us don’t steal don’t lie don’t cheat. And here they come stealing us and lying to us and cheating us out our freedom.”) Rawles describes Sadie’s endurance through trials that seem beyond what any human could bear, and creates a character whom we can imagine bearing them. Yet one wishes...
...your shoulders are wider than your feet when you stand up straight, we created a shape that reflected that ergonomically," says Anne Appleby, founder of the California-based company YogaForce. For those who can't quite align their Warrior I pose, the mat also has a grid?a yoga cheat sheet of sorts?so that you can see how to line up your front foot with your back foot's middle arch. And there's a bonus for those who find themselves perpetually late for overcrowded classes: there's no need to fuss with a bag. A YogaForce mat comes...