Word: denialism
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...been okayed by top officials at both the Justice Department and the White House. Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein explained that after re-examining the issue, the Administration could find nothing in the "plain language" of the IRS code or the history of the legislation that justified the denial of the tax exemptions. Veteran Civil Rights Attorney Joseph Rauh thought otherwise. "This was a sop to the right-wingers," he said. "The law is very clear that you can't give a direct subsidy to a discriminatory institution. I don't see any difference between giving someone...
...whose dark walls and slabs of mottled stoneware are triumphs of craft. So, in a quite different way, is the work of another Voulkos protégé. Sculptor Kenneth Price, 46. But where Mason's work is rocklike and lumpen totemic. Price's involves an elegant denial of clay's earthen nature. His sharp-angled, cubistic "cup" sculptures look so machined and precise that they might have been conceived in metal; the brilliant visual punch of the industrial glazes in De Chirico's Bathhouse, 1980, accentuated by the thin white lines where the facets...
...Saturday) to switch to Gaddafi as guest. In slightly fractured English, Gaddafi scornfully denied that he had sent a killer squad to the U. S. Neither his word nor his record entitles credence, yet in the next hour nobody on the program even mentioned, let alone discussed his denial. Perhaps it was Gaddafi's appearance that was so scary, as he huddled, dressed in collarless brown shirt and engulfed in a blue cape. As his head bobbed upward and backward, his eyes rolling up to the heavens, he looked like a Monty Python imitation of an Arab weirdo...
...Fated for a show trial and under heavy guard, they wore handcuffs that bit into their wrists. To no one's surprise, they accused former Seychelles President James Mancham, exiled after René's successful 1977 coup, of arranging the raid. Mancham denied the charge, but his denial was damaged when one of the arrested mercenaries was found to have a tape recording of his voice intended for broadcast after a successful coup...
...Dominguez disputed Regalado's denial of Cuban arms shipments to El Salvador. The United States has supplied plausible evidence that Cuba funnelled weapons to El Salvador from late 1980 to early 1981, Dominguez said...