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...else is lying on their fellowship applications, and you consider yourself to be as worthy of the fellowship as anyone else, then isn't lying yourself the truly honest thing to do? Under these conditions, wouldn't telling the truth actually give the fellowship committee an inaccurate, and therefore dishonest, perception of how you stack up against the other candidates...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: Guide to Fellowships | 10/16/1990 | See Source »

...advanced pregnancy and the possibility of recurrent breast cancer. Turow puts Sandy and Sonny in a hot tub together. But the bubbly alchemy is less convincing than their professional chemistry. Exchanges about subpoenas and fiduciary relationships resound with the authority of a judge's gavel. Clear explanations of how dishonest brokers and floor traders operate should add to the damage-control problems at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crimes of The Heart | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...elusive Gramm- Rudman targets. A speedy budget deal, Darman believes, will lower interest rates and keep the economy growing. But other participants, notably Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, say that moving the thrift bailout off budget -- instead of paying for it out of current revenue -- is dishonest because it will only increase the cost of borrowing over the long term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burden For Dad, Grief for Son | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

MOST Harvard students are so thoroughly primed in the rigors of dishonest politeness that when asked "How was your winter vacation?", they'll volley a blank, unthinking "Good and yours?" without batting even a nose hair...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Reading During the Revolutions | 1/19/1990 | See Source »

...admit that Israel has done some wrong in the last two years. Yet to accept every accusation of civil and human rights abuses as if they were indisputable facts and to assume that Israel's great security risk need not have widespread implications is grossly unfair and intellectually dishonest. I do not desire to deny any and all wrongdoing by Israel--I only want intelligent people at Harvard to look up from their textbooks and see the real context in which things occur. That way maybe people will see the situation in the Middle East in its full moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legitimate Debate on Israel | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

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