Word: whitewashed
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...COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS and Responsibilities (CRR) has finally issued its report on student protests at 17 Quincy Street and Lowell House last April, and it is no surprise that student activists are calling the report "a whitewash." The committee was ill-conceived and illegitimate to begin with. Moreover, the committee simply has not fufilled the mission it was charged with by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence when he asked it last spring "to investigate thoroughly, openly, and fairly the specific circumstances of these two incidents to ensure that there is widespread and accurate knowledge of what happened...
...business. "I think we got the facts," declared Bell, whose team of 14 lawyers interviewed more than 370 current and former Hutton employees. Says James Hanbury, who studies Hutton for the investment firm Wertheim & Co.: "Bell was tougher on Hutton than I expected. You can't call this a whitewash...
...pressure for the resignations of top government officials, it brought sharp criticism from David Lange, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, who claimed that Tricot had ignored evidence submitted by the New Zealand authorities. The report, fumed the angry Prime Minister, was "too transparent to merit the description of whitewash." Lange seemed somewhat mollified later in the week when Premier Fabius made a conciliatory public statement calling the bombing "a criminal act" and pledging that "the guilty, whoever they are, will have to be punished...
...soccer player who orchestrated that initial whitewash, freshman goalkeeper Tracee Whitley, was only the first of many Yardlings in the sports spotlight this year...
Critics quickly labeled Lord Bridge's report a whitewash. Noting that the report was commissioned and completed in only six days, the Daily Telegraph ridiculed it as "the bench's answer to fast food: a juridical...