Word: denialism
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Bell also said that the school's poor minorityhiring record was "a denial of Black humanity,"part of a 300-year history of discrimination thatincluded slavery and segregation...
...raised last year when the White House was embarrassed by the revelation that Adham had hired chief of staff John Sununu's ex-aide Edward Rogers for a $600,000 fee. A senior intelligence officer stationed in Saudi Arabia during those years told TIME last week that Bush's denial is not credible. "It's flat impossible," he says...
Over the years, Congress has tried to use the denial of MFN -- or what might more accurately be called the conferment of LFN (least-favored-nation) -- status as a stick to make countries behave. It has never worked. Instead the use of trade as a political weapon has almost always backfired. The classic example is also the original one: in the mid-1970s, congressional conservatives passed the famous Jackson-Vanik amendment, which withheld MFN from the U.S.S.R. until the Kremlin agreed to let more Soviet Jews emigrate. Just to show who was boss, Leonid Brezhnev decreased the number of exit...
...first wave of gay response to AIDS was fear, mixed alternately with denial and paranoia. The second wave, the past few years, has been a therapeutic anger, an opportunity for the grief-stricken to vent their pain and for the dying to give meaning to their premature passing. The third and current wave of gay response to AIDS is once again dominated by fear, this time based on a sense of grim inevitability. The medical news is not good. The civil rights struggle is taking far longer than most people thought. The gay leaders during the first decade...
...local Masonic temple. Eve, a former singer at Catskill resorts, raises her three daughters and son on the Don't-let-Daddy-know principle. The children say there were also things their mother "did not want to see or hear or know" and dub her "the Queen of Denial...