Word: falsehood
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...Saddam's world, falsehood was often propelled by fear, and sometimes worked in subtle ways. Saddam's aides sometimes withhold critical information about the war from him because they are afraid of telling him the truth...
...only is this attempt to influence opinion built on falsehood, it is built on absurdity: It does not take a genius to realize that it is in the best interests of the Israelis to have Palestinians studying in libraries rather than in the streets assaulting Israeli soldiers...
Highlighting these questions are the personal documents Wolff scatters throughout The Final Club. The documents are examples of the institutionalized mix of truth and falsehood we all encounter and produce in forms like college applications. Clay's and his classmates' contributions to their alumni reports and their children's application essays to Princeton are minor works of literature compared to Pope and Dryden, but they posess a clumsy eloquence and--to their creators--are infinitely more important than some long-forgotten poem...
...calling someone a liar nothing more than a statement of opinion? And if so, is that opinion protected by the Constitution -- even if rooted in falsehood? These questions are central to a pending Supreme Court decision that may establish the extent to which journalists and others are accountable for airing their most passionate beliefs...
Ironically, even as Butterfield perpetuates this stereotypical view of Asian-Americans, he recognizes the falsehood of the model minority myth. The author acknowledges that not all Asian-Americans are academically stellar, pointing to the hardships suffered by many Hmong and Cambodian refugees...