Word: denialism
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...came back and just completely bombed, it would damage his legend. In fact only 28% think athletes should retire at their peak. It makes you wonder if a lot of the people who answer calls from pollsters are ex-high school jocks in a state of major denial...
...years ago. The phone rang and changed my life. My doctor was calling with what he said was good news. The lump detected by my mammogram was less than a centimeter, easy to treat. I asked, "Are you telling me I have cancer?" I was stunned and in denial, yet within hours I was struggling with my manager--and myself--over whether to go public. I dreaded the exposure. But my mammogram had probably saved my life (I'm now cancer free), and I believed that publicizing it would encourage other women to get tested...
...house when one of Paoletta's children was being christened (Thomas is a godfather) and claims Paoletta later told him Thomas regularly rented porn videos, knowing Brock wouldn't use it, since they were "on the same team." Paoletta didn't return TIME's calls but gave an incomplete denial to the New York Times, saying that Thomas "did not ask me" to pass along the dirt (but not that he didn't give it to him) and that he didn't know whether Thomas rented videos from a specific store...
...house when one of Paoletta's children was being christened (Thomas is a godfather) and claims Paoletta later told him Thomas regularly rented porn videos, knowing Brock wouldn't use it, since they were "on the same team." Paoletta didn't return TIME's calls but gave an incomplete denial to the New York Times, saying that Thomas "did not ask me" to pass along the dirt (but not that he didn't give it to him) and that he didn't know whether Thomas rented videos from a specific store...
...Then again, such problems may be symptomatic of the widespread denial that persists among Serbs over some of the crimes committed in their name in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, and the trial - together with the recent discovery of mass graves inside Serbia containing bodies moved from Kosovo, and an increasing willingness of witnesses to come forward - could also prove cathartic...