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...fib really a fib if the teller is unaware that he is uttering an untruth? That question appears to be the basis of the White House defense, having now admitted a falsehood in President Bush's claim, in his State of the Union address, that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa. But that defense is under mounting pressure from a variety of sources claiming that the White House could not have been unaware that the claim was false, because it had been checked out - and debunked - by U.S. intelligence a year before the President repeated...
...Iraq last weekend delivered a 12,000-page declaration of its WMD activities as required by UN Security Council resolution 1441, and by week's end Bush Administration officials were decrying it as a recycled fib that failed even to address the questions left unanswered by the last inspection regime which departed in 1998. But unless the UNMOVIC inspectors discover any hard evidence of the Iraqis maintaining prohibited weapons programs - evidence U.S. officials have hinted may be difficult to provide - Washington will likely struggle to convince the Security Council to authorize a war. Not that this would stop the Bush...
...tell a good lie--or at least it must seem that way to Sandra Baldwin, the first woman to be named chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and, as of two weeks ago, the first to resign the post. As far as anyone knows, Baldwin had not told a fib in years, but the last one she did tell was a doozy. On her widely publicized resume, she misrepresented the school from which she earned her bachelor's degree and listed a Ph.D. she never finished. The lies hung around until an alumni magazine threatened to reveal them last month...
Particularly illustrative of this delicate balance is a scene where Leahy, urged to lie about the dead bodies in her cellar, indignantly exclaims that she refuses to “tell a fib.” Leahy conveys the strength of a woman who cares about living truthfully and decently and has somehow reconciled multiple murders with her sense of moral integrity...
...Friends.") Jack's vocals and guitar are sharp and plaintive and precise, and Meg's rhythms have drive and swing. Predictably, they wish their music would get all the attention, and don't speak on the record about the sibling issue. One can only speculate about what purpose the fib serves for them, but it seems likely they're loath to gab about their divorce and they hope to exercise some control over the hype descending upon them. At any rate, it's clear they have their reservations about being exposed to media scrutiny. The cover of White Blood Cells...