Word: confusionism
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The President's proposal to eliminate double taxation on stock dividends is a magnum opus of confusion. Want proof? It took Wall Street nearly a week to grasp one of the plan's most fundamental notions: shareholders would be no better off tax-wise with companies that pay a dividend...
Perhaps the most truthful way to express that moral confusion is with a lie, a notion Kaufman explores not only in this script, which he wrote in 1997, but also in Adaptation. Kaufman has never met Barris and says he doesn't know if the CIA stories are true. "The...
As hundreds of thousands of jubilant Kenyans poured into Nairobi's Uhuru Park for the inauguration of their new President on Dec. 30, joy threatened to turn to chaos. Frustrated at the three-hour wait for Mwai Kibaki, the crowd crushed forward, causing dozens of people to faint from suffocation...
For cricket fans, it's a delicious irony that South Africa is trying to be the voice of reason in the sport's latest political showdown. Until little over a decade ago, the country was cricket's pariah, barred from international competition for refusing to play against nonwhite teams. Now...
Some medical studies offer small but important advances in our understanding of disease. Others just seem to create confusion. Then there are those rare studies, like last week's report on the best way to start treating high blood pressure, that could change the way doctors practice medicine for years...