Word: slander
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...revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s." I'm afraid that whoever the candidates will be, the campaign will be ugly. In American politics, the parties seem to think that no matter how preposterous and grossly fabricated a charge is, it pays to slander. The Bush Administration has set a tone that works for it. You can count on the Republicans to do whatever it takes to win. Laurent de Wilde Paris Sharp Businessman Your article on the sharp corp., Japan's hottest electronics firm, and its president, Katsuhiko Machida, showed that slow and steady...
...telling the whole story about what happened in Andijan. Uzbek authorities claimed that 173 people died, mostly militants. But based on first-hand experience and other eyewitness accounts, Zainabitdinov said the death toll could be as high as 1,000 - and demanded an international inquiry. The government answered with slander charges that could mean up to five years in prison. Said Muzaffarmirzo Iskhakov, the Andijan chair of the Ezgulik (Goodness) human-rights group: "They did not let his family see him, or even send him some food." Surat Ikramov, chair of Uzbekistan's Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders...
...Stalin's errors - "even geniuses make mistakes" - and did not mention the millions who died in purges before and after World War II. More chillingly, Yazov had a message for the future: "The destruction of our socialist state at the end of the last century started with the massive slander of Stalin. The restoration of the country cannot happen without the full truth about him. To speak the truth about Stalin today ... helps strengthen the will and spirit of our people and contribute to the salvation of our fatherland in a difficult and dangerous time." President Vladimir Putin...
...have no objection to—and in fact fully support—the free expression of legitimate Palestinian viewpoints and rights. However, by falsifying, manipulating, and distorting facts, and leaving context wholly absent, this advertisement serves to spread lies that slander the state of Israel rather than promote the Palestinian cause. Propaganda of this sort in a public forum is libelous, dangerous, and unacceptable, and completely contradicts the aim of civil and honest discourse that is central to University life...
After Coulter helped get the President impeached, one might have expected her to follow fellow anti-Clinton machinators--Linda Tripp and her friend Lucianne Goldberg come to mind--into obscurity. But Coulter's second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, an assault on the media, spent eight weeks at the top of the Times best-seller list and rekindled the debate on whether reporters show a liberal bias. Slander was followed in 2003 by Treason, and by then Coulter had inspired an industry of debunkers, people who scour her every utterance for mistakes large and small. Entire websites...