Word: duped
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...fact, Forte! did not just bore its audience to death; it tried to dupe it. Many of the showcased “students” weren’t students at all. Of the 37 listed in the program, 19 were undergraduates and 18 were recent (or not-so-recent) graduates. That’s a phony count of 50 percent...
University President Lawrence H. Summers is either uninformed or a dupe to equate our anti-Israel petition with anti-Semitism (News, “Summers Says Anti-Semitism Lurks Locally,” Sept. 19). We have not unjustly singled out Israel for criticism. Sharon’s policies deserve every bit of criticism we direct at it. If Summers wants to lend Sharon the support of Harvard, let him do so openly and not hide behind slurs against faculty members exercising their right of political expression. Summers’ ill-considered statements only show again how unsuited...
...firms and federal prosecutors' offices often work unorthodox legal strategies, dusting off little-used laws to help their cause. In the fight with Merrill, for example, New York relied on the Martin Act of 1921 for authority to pursue Merrill without having to prove the firm intended to dupe investors...
Though intriguing, such a choice is not without problems, as having Lady Macbeth influence Macbeth in one direction and the witches in the other might reduce the protagonist to an unwitting dupe caught in between the forces of humanity and fate...
...great achievement of Jones and Maltese (and composer Carl Stalling and versatile vocalist Mel Blanc) was their development of the Warners' stock company. Porky Pig was the harassed middle-management type, Elmer Fudd the chronic, choleric dupe. Bugs Bunny (introduced by director Tex Avery in 1940's A Wild Hare) became the cartoon Cagney--urban, crafty, pugnacious--and then the blase underhare who wins every battle without ever mussing his aplomb; one raised eyebrow was enough to semaphore his superiority to the carnage around...