Word: pretexting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teams with wounded pride will face off at Ohiri Field this Saturday afternoon. Both teams will be driven to bounce back from stinging losses. And as if that were not enough emotional pretext for one contest, it will be Harvard facing Yale. Still, regardless of the background drama that underlies this year’s rendition of the storied rivalry, the Crimson knows one thing: this game is a must-win. Coming off a three-game slide punctuated most recently by a 2-1 loss to Rhode Island, Harvard (5-4-0, 0-1-0 Ivy) hopes to reverse...
...cruise missile. United Flight 93 did not crash after its occupants rushed the cockpit; it was deliberately taken down by a U.S. Air Force fighter. The entire catastrophe was planned and executed by federal officials in order to provide the U.S. with a pretext for going to war in the Middle East and, by extension, as a means of consolidating and extending the power of the Bush Administration...
...Little Miss Sunshine, come to think of it. Yes, the youngest member of a perfectly dim and dysafunctional American family is determined to compete in one of those horrific sub-teen beauty pageants. That, however, is merely a pretext to cram them into a decrepit VW bus and set them on the road to nowhere. The central joke is that their behavior is perfectly sublimated and perfectly committed to the intricate desperations by which they hope to gain fame, riches or, in the case of a recently defrocked Proust scholar, an alternative to suicide. All in all I thought...
...British extremist groups will often send a particularly promising recruit to Pakistan, on the pretext of visiting relatives, to link up with contacts there. "So they are visiting their relatives, and they say they are leaving for a few weeks to visit friends in Karachi. Instead they go meet up with one of the groups that they were given references to," Rizvi says. The purpose of such visits, he adds, is more likely to be ideological reinforcement than military training. "Yes, you could conceivably learn to make a bomb here more easily than in the U.K., but what...
...even tolerate it. Yet the real basis of religious toleration isn’t really free speech, but mutual respect. Civil discourse, when it actually happens, is the bedrock of our society. Once religious groups start arguing based on reason instead of justifying their actions with the pretext of “faith,” they’ll earn credibility and I’ll force myself to listen. But until then, they’ll remain filed away under those three little words—crazy religious zealots. Giselle Barcia ’08, a Crimson editorial...