Word: deceitful
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...there has been a concerted effort by the extreme voices of the conservative movement on campus not only to tackle the left but also to silence any voices on the right that might disagree with theirs. The members of the campus's far right have taken to political underhandedness, deceit and shameful behavior to achieve their end of hegemony in conservative discourse on campus. All the while, they have attempted to maintain a facade of fair play and honesty. Fortunately, most informed Harvard students accept this facade for exactly what it is--a facade...
Another accusation included on the listsubmitted to The Crimson was that certain membersof the HRC had sought to silence its more moderateopponents in the organization and even went so faras to use deceit to force William Zerhouni '98,the former HRC freshman member-at-large, from theexecutive board last month...
...million Manhattan apartment. And of course it has a whiff of treachery. Behind the internal inquiry that led to the patriarch's undoing was chief executive officer J.P. Bolduc, 55, the very person Grace had groomed to succeed him. And naturally there's a hint of deceit. When Bolduc suddenly quit last month, the board of directors said it was because of "differences of style and philosophy." But as it later emerged, Bolduc was forced out in part because of an alleged history of sexual harassment. There it was-sex. Now the story has everything...
True to the spirit of the commandment, if not the letter, "Decalogue 4"--"Honor thy father and thy mother"--is a provocative look at incest. A motherless girl suspects that her father is not actually her father and draws him into a game of deceit to expose the unacknowledged desire that lies between them. But is he really not her father? And if he were her father, would that change the feelings that they have for each other? Forbidden desire clashes with the expectations that each family member holds to another. From the opening water-fight between father and daughter...
Maraniss lets the story linger long, perhaps too long, over Clinton's days as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. But it is an important stop. There we see Clinton's boyhood habit of telling people what they want to hear turn into a propensity for deceit and lies. Clinton seems to struggle genuinely with his conscience, but ultimately he ducks a choice. He is drafted, but pulls strings to get into a ROTC program in which he has no intention of actually participating...