Word: deceitful
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...talent of the student-run group, which performed in the Dunster House Dining Hall.The world of “Figaro” is one in which men who are themselves perfidious accuse their lovers of being “false and faithless,” as one character sings. Deceit and pranks that rival those of Shakespeare’s Puck abound in this opera, as the main characters—Kapusta’s Figaro; his lover Susanna, played by Winnie L. Nip ’08; the Count and the Countess Almaviva, portrayed by James B. Onstad...
...SECOND REASON THAT INFORMATION MAY BE SEALED OFF FROM consciousness is strategic. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers has noted that people have a motive to sell themselves as beneficent, rational, competent agents. The best propagandist is the one who believes his own lies, ensuring that he can't leak his deceit through nervous twitches or self-contradictions. So the brain might have been shaped to keep compromising data away from the conscious processes that govern our interaction with other people. At the same time, it keeps the data around in unconscious processes to prevent the person from getting...
...current ethics charges allege "conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice... engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation" and cites four violations of the state's Revised Rules of Professional Conduct. Among the 41 public statements cited by the bar is one alleging that Nifong knew was not credible: "I would not be surprised if condoms were used. Probably an exotic dancer would not be your first choice for unprotected sex," Nifong said publicly, even after the accuser's own hospital exam statement was taken, in which she said her attackers did not use condoms...
...parties in February said they would have a bill to the President soon and it hasn't happened yet," said Robert Douglas, an information security consultant who runs PrivacyToday.com. "To pass a bill saying it's a crime to get someone's phone records through deceit is a simple issue." Here's a look at the players, the interests and why it hasn't been simple at all. Why a new law is necessary Clearly there's some confusion in this area as to what's legal and what's not when it comes to pretexting - just ask the Hewlett...
Allegra S. Goodman ’89 writes about a similar deceit in her novel “Intuition,” which, coincidentally, was published around the same time the Hwang scandal broke out. Setting her story in a lab at the fictitious Philpot Institute in Cambridge, Goodman—whose first book of short stories, “Total Immersion,” was published the year she graduated from Harvard—chronicles the meteoric rise of a young scientist who falls victim to a poisonous cloud of suspicion over his research. While the novel...