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Five minutes of contrition might not have made up for months of deceit, but five minutes of evasiveness and anger certainly didn't. And his more recent attempts at contrition have rung hollow in the wake of his first failed speech...
...some ways, lying in general has become a lot easier. The breakdown of communities and the peripatetic habits of the population, notes Charles Ford, author of Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit, have made lying harder to uncover. If you live in a condo in San Diego, you can pretend you were captain of your high school football team in Akron, Ohio. But for public figures, it's precisely the opposite: TV and the mass media turn the whole country into one small town...
Tales of blocking deceit abound. According to one pair of bitter female first-years, they were assured spots in a coveted blocking group months ago. They had not even thought about blocking until this past Sunday--when the blocking group chiefs arrived in person at their rooms to inform them that they had been...
...culture of deceit has long been an integral part of Japan's success. Since World War II, the assumption has been that the government would back the banks, the banks would back the companies, and everyone would be guaranteed employment for life. That worked when Japan was growing fast enough to cover its losses. Those days are gone, and so are thousands of jobs...
Last week a hint of confidence drove Japan's stock markets back up, but top bureaucrats and politicians still hew to the notion that the public cannot be trusted with its own fate. In the context of today's rolling financial crisis, however, tolerance for deceit is evaporating. "Our culture is changing, but very slowly," says Kawai. "Now we have to learn how to help ourselves." True, indeed...