Word: denialism
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...doors in Magic Marker." Once, "when a hand reached under the partition between the toilet stalls and stroked [his] left leg; [he] stood up, horrified, pulled [his] pants on and left." Holleran later came out, and described the early years as consumed by "such force of "denial." Despite the pervasive bohemian politics of the time, his time at Harvard, he concluded, was one of segregation and unfulfilled longing...
...Khadija Moalla, the regional coordinator for UNDP/HARPAS, a regional HIV/AIDS program, is extremely depressed and frustrated. She has been active in this campaign since 2002, and admits that she and other activists face a daunting challenge. "There is silence, denial, stigma and discrimination regarding HIV in the Arab World," says Moalla. Although most Arab governments have national programs to combat AIDS, these are nowhere near equal to the scale of the challenge. For example, the amount of treatment drugs made available through the public health system in Sudan is well short of the number of infections in that country...
TIME Oblivious, in denial, incompetent, dangerous. Do you regret using any of these words to describe the President...
...global celebrity whom even Bush called a "matinee idol"; Rice was the overwhelmed National Security Adviser, struggling to make herself heard above the din of colliding war-cabinet egos. "I know you won't talk to Condi," Bush told Rumsfeld, according to Bob Woodward's book State of Denial. "But you've got to talk...
American leaders seem to be in denial about these facts. President Bush continually asserts that the Iraqi people have voted for unity, while Condoleezza Rice once told me how impressed she was by the commitment of the Iraqi Kurds to building a new Iraq. James A. Baker III, co-chairman of a congressionally mandated commission tasked with formulating new policy options, has ruled out the idea of dividing Iraq. The most prominent American politician to endorse anything resembling partition is Senator Joseph Biden, who, along with former Council on Foreign Relations president Leslie Gelb, proposes dividing Iraq into three regions...