Word: lieing
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...This is the second factor, what you might call the other big lie - the one Galvin is getting at - of the Madoff Ponzi scheme: the feeders and Madoff conspiring together to keep basic due-diligence issues from clients, even as Madoff lied to his own feeder-fund generals, even as he lied to government regulators. Everyone turned a blind eye, everyone was in bed on this, including down the line the hapless investor who trusted all those years. See the top 10 scandals...
...mind open to unconsidered academic and job possibilities. While not having one’s life plotted out can be terrifying, given economic conditions—663,000 more jobs were cut last month, bringing the jobless rate to a record 8.5 percent—the danger may lie not in planning too little, but too much. According to U.S. Department of Labor estimates, the average American changes careers three to five times in his lifetime, making flexibility imperative. Perhaps it’s time for Harvard students to embrace the terror of unknowing and to check their aspirations?...
...tried to stop my carriage as it flew down the hill. “Well, you know, the sermon has already started, so everybody will be paying attention to that. You won’t be taking anyone’s seat.” Thou shalt not lie.“Miss Winnie, I’s not goin’ to rile anybody up today.”“You wouldn’t be—you won’t!” Thou shalt not bear false witness...
...beauty.Given their previous work, it is not at all surprising that many of the lyrics on “It’s Blitz!” describe love and sex. At times, O delivers lines of barely disguised innuendo, such as “The beast that I lie beneath is coming in” in “Dull Life.” That track—one of the few songs that prominently features the otherwise downplayed guitar—comes at the midpoint of the album and is one of the album’s most...
...toughest battle ahead for the Gurkha tradition may lie in Kathmandu. In the augury of events since the Maoists seized power in Nepal last year, marking an end to a decade-long armed struggle, rebel leader turned Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has openly expressed his antipathy for the practice of young Nepalese men serving in foreign armies as mercenaries for hire. Once in office, he announced that he would discontinue Gurkha recruitments, an undignified and degrading legacy in his eyes. (See pictures from Nepal's elections...