Word: lied
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Ironically, part of the answer may lie within Dovidio's speech. Dovidio, who has spent yeas researching the topic, finds that most Americans, up to 85 out of every 100, do not consider themselves prejudiced...
Tutu's willingness to run for office, however, indicates something more important--Harvard's policy matters. Tutu believes the University's divestment would send the message that reaping profits from a system of institutional racism is immoral. He also wants to expose the lie that selective divestment policies, such as Harvard's, can be fair and humanitarian...
Since, as Barbouti explains, he wants neither to lie nor to tell the truth, the details of the story he relates may be subject to considerable refinement. He says he was born to a wealthy Iraqi family, studied architecture in Zurich and Vienna and received a doctorate in West Berlin (hence "Doctor"). He taught architecture at Baghdad University in Iraq, ran a private consulting business there, invested in banking, insurance and industry, and served as a sometime government adviser. In 1969, a year after the Baath Party came to power, Barbouti fled the country, fearing that he might be arrested...
...they will find him in London, fingering his worry beads. It is unlikely they will discover that he broke any laws. He was, after all, a legitimate Iraqi businessman who happened to be Libya's middleman and who knew nothing about the manufacture of chemical weapons. He won't lie, but he may not want to tell the truth either...
...glitter when she speaks of crack. Then she looks weary, confused and angry. "When I came here, I figured I'd get a place to sleep and some food, and then split and get an abortion and get high once in a while," she says. "But I was just lying to myself, lie after lie after lie...