Word: deceits
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...newest film, director Marc Forster makes a drastic break from his previous work. In Monster’s Ball, he explored themes of racism, deceit and capital punishment; in short, he depicted reality at its darkest. Finding Neverland couldn’t be more different. Johnny Depp plays James “J.M.” Barrie, in the process of writing his masterwork Peter Pan. Like most of Depp’s characters, Barrie is more than a little strange. He lives in an odd mix of the real world—London in 1904?...
...Bush is the rising star of verbal deceit, then Dick Cheney is already a formidable maestro of manipulation. He has recently made it clear that putting anyone but Bush in the Oval Office is an open invitation for terrorism: “If we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States,” said Cheney. The implication, of course, is not only that Kerry is a national safety hazard...
...fiasco of early this summer was a disappointing failure to communicate between the administration and the council, though I suspect that it is not the first time that these two groups have not dovetailed perfectly. But it was not the result of terrible management or shortsightedness or negligence or deceit; it was a genuine mistake. And, because it happened, there will be safeguards in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again...
...charged with insider trading by the Justice Department (although last week the Securities and Exchange Commission did so in a separate, $90 million suit in civil court, where the standard of proof is less stringent). Instead, the bulk of the charges against Lay allege that he helped keep the deceit alive after he resumed his role as CEO in August 2001, when Skilling abruptly resigned. The remaining charges deal with an obscure bank-fraud rule involving Lay's personal-loan applications. "I have to go home and look up something called a Reg U," Lay's attorney griped. "That...
...begins Blair’s descent into unending deceit, occurring simultaneously with his own mental breakdown—or so he tells us—and eventual suicide attempt, which Blair recounts in the book’s most powerful moment. “I looked up at the strong metal hinge in the bathroom and saw nothing but relief,” he writes. “I wrapped the leather around my neck. It felt cold and slightly sticky, but I did not jerk from it. I felt out of my body.” Given the strident...