Word: deceits
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...wonder, then, that politicians, stuck with an audience whose ignorance has left it insensible to reason, resorts to deceit. If all that the average voter retains from political discourse is a vague conception of the evils of "tax-and-spend Democrats" and "trickle-down economics" why would any politician offer anything more substative than cliches like these...
...play is an adaptation of The Revenger's Tragedy, a preposterous Elizabethan melodrama. It depicts an Italian ducal court, stuffed to the gills with lecherous courtiers. The action is chock full o' deceit and betrayal, with a healthy dose of gratuitous violence, and lashings and lashings of sexual misconduct. The original (anonymous) author was so out of control that the play ends with only three characters still standing. This production lowers the tally to zero, although the last living soul succumbs, somewhat improbably, to a chronic case of backache...
...turning the mission over to U.N. peacekeepers. Somalis feel that the U.N. team already in the country has been neither impartial nor adequate. They also nurse ill feelings toward U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, who once had dealings with the ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. "They practiced deceit, secrecy, deception and outright bribery," charges Mohammed Awale, an adviser to Aidid, "adding to the fragmentation of Somali society." Restoring the U.N.'s credibility may be a surprisingly tough part of the mission...
...enforce the 1973 treaty and that created the distrust that has surrounded the MIA issue ever since. Kissinger negotiated the Vietnam Peace Accord secretly, cutting Congress and even the State Department out of the process. And on two crucial issues in the final agreement, this furtiveness bordered on deceit...
Jason, 37, a Seattle architect, avoided deceit by disclosing his bisexuality before his marriage. "We talked about our marriage vows because I did not want to say 'I will forsake all others.' I couldn't vow monogamy." But he is faithful to his wife in one sense: his outside liaisons are limited to men, and only one at a time. "Besides, I can't handle too many emotional relationships at a time. You can get burned...