Word: denialism
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Such programs are clearly valuable, but the treatment is costly. Therapists say the optimum time needed for counseling sex offenders ranges from twelve to 18 months. (It can take about six months just to break through the denial phase.) Follow-up and outpatient therapy are also necessary. As a result, not enough youths get treatment...
...Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord is denied tenure, despite receiving her department's approval the previous month. The decision on Nord marks the second junior faculty tenure denial this year at a time when the English Department is seeking to make a number of senior appointments...
This apathy, this self-delusion or self-denial formed the grounds for masters and the College dean to propose in November the greatest change in residential housing assignment since the early 1970s. Alarmed by stereotypes of the houses and concerned that the houses no longer represented the educational microcosm of the University's diversity, officials moved to introduce partially random assignment of rising sophomores...
...buzz of succession talk was interrupted only for periodic "when will he go" bulletins on Wright. From the moment the klieg lights came on in the ethics committee hearing room on Tuesday morning, Democrats realized they had been living in a state of denial about the scandal. By nightfall negotiators for Wright and the committee were sounding each other out about a deal: Wright's resignation in exchange for the committee's agreement to drop some of the charges against him. By week's end it was clear that Wright was a goner, with no guarantee of clemency...
...next day Pravda denounced both Ivanov and Gdlyan for their "provocative statements" and announced that a special government commission would investigate the prosecutors' "methods." Ligachev then issued a public denial of the allegations and described them as "political provocation." The commission wasted no time in issuing a lengthy report at week's end that assailed Gdlyan's professional conduct and charged him with "insulting people who were under arrest...