Word: flapped
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...death certificates presented by Pyongyang were printed on identical forms issued by a mysterious '695th hospital' while a marriage certificate for two abductees had the wrong dates of birth. By coming clean on its institutionalized kidnapping, North Korea should have eased the minds of grieving family members. Instead, the flap has provoked further rage and cruel hope that loved ones said to be dead are somehow still alive. And it's shown once again that, even when the truth is in its best interests, Pyongyang can't help being compulsively deceitful...
...accounts this Paulin fellow the English Department invited to lecture here is a despicable example of the anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel posturing unfortunately quite widespread among European intellectuals (News, “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 14). We think he probably should not have been invited. But Harvard has had its share of cranks, monsters, scoundrels and charlatans lecture here and has survived...
...flap over Bad Barry shouldn't overshadow the fact that we are watching one of the greatest players the game has ever produced. Like Ruth, Bonds has changed the sport. Before Ruth, the name of the game was "scientific" baseball, a singles strategy designed to move runners from station to station to create a run. With his mighty uppercut, the Bambino ended that style forever and made power primary to winning...
...Gruner & Jahr, publisher of Rosie, thinks it can profit from Rosie O'Donnell's name and ignore her views, it's living in the past [PEOPLE, Sept. 30]. It obviously doesn't know the real Rosie. Her appeal is her honesty and straightforwardness, and this flap over editorial control of the magazine Rosie just makes those qualities all the more real to her fans. Go, Rosie! Jade Walsh Jackson Hole...
During the 2000 election flap, the G.O.P. needed somebody, in KATHERINE HARRIS' words, to hold Al Gore to "the letter of the law." And the then Florida secretary of state did so with gusto. This year she seems to have disobeyed both the spirit and the letter of the law herself. After she quit her job to run for Congress, she admitted to violating Florida election rules. It seems she sent her letter of resignation to Governor Jeb Bush Aug. 1, more than two weeks later than the rules called for. "I made a mistake in not filing a letter...