Word: liar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...five-year litigation campaign to reach a jury was that of a Minnesota woman named Jammie Thomas, who was sentenced in 2007 to pay $220,000 to the record companies for her file-sharing activities. A juror went on record after that trial calling Thomas a “liar.” (Thankfully for Thomas, a judge later threw out the trial verdict, invalidating the proceedings.) Things went something better for Cusick and Stroup, the marijuana crusaders, who were convicted by a jury in less than 30 minutes, but sentenced only to a single day in prison, which they...
...Lopez ’10 describes the bittersweet experience of getting into Harvard as an unauthorized youth. “Getting into Harvard wasn’t the happy ending to my story that it should have been. All of these years I’ve felt like a liar because I haven’t been able to tell my friends about my immigration status, either out of fear or embarrassment. There is a stigma associated with being ‘illegal’ in this country, especially with all of the attacks on immigrants by the U.S. government...
...hate to say this, but he's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I would say liar.' Ex--Bush aide Karl Rove, disputing Biden's recollection...
...find it hard to have close personal relationships with people because of your job? Are you in a relationship? I'm not in a relationship. That's not to say that I don't want to be. But I am a professional liar. That's what undercover work is. I'll meet someone, and I'll say I have a job I don't talk about. And all of a sudden I'm a really weird guy. The result is that I don't have much of a personal life...
...Party leaders in Washington met with a potential primary opponent, David Williams, a McConnell ally who is the whip-smart and baldly partisan president of the Kentucky senate. Last month, Bunning called Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who will lead efforts to re-elect GOP senators in 2010, a liar after Cornyn denied he was recruiting an alternative candidate to Bunning. Just for good measure, he also threatened to sue the party if they did indeed recruit a candidate to run against Bunning...