Word: deceitful
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However, much of the mainstream media, many conservative politicians and a substantial part of white America continue to coddle Murray. The media has not held Murray fully accountable for his deceit. For example, Murray and The Bell Curve are still described using mild adjectives such as `controversial' (who can imagine neo-Nazi skinheads being referred to as merely controversial?). At worst, Murray is seen as a scholar who got carried away with his work and ended up outside the mainstream of conventional scientific thought...
...Phyllis Dorothy) James' fourteenth novel, marks a return to mystery after the author's latest foray into straight fiction with The Children of Men. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, of New Scotland Yard, directs the investigation of a series of publishing house murders, untangling a twisted skein of death, suicide and deceit. Or is it really Detective Inspectors Daniel Aaron and Kate Miskin who do the footwork on this case? Why is Dalgliesh always away at meetings? James reacts strongly to any such queries...
...SMITH'S DECEIT CREATES NEW PROBLEMS for children and families where an abduction has occurred. Who will believe them? Now there will always be a doubt in the minds of people. How willing will they be to help the next sobbing mother who claims her child was abducted...
Richard Milhous Nixon was the only American president ever to resign. His treachery and deceit while at the pinnacle of power in the free world sullied the Oval Office and betrayed the trust implicit in the most sacred of American possesions, the vote...
According to America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, an accusatory, tweaked-up documentary that aired on PBS last week, the watchful do-nothings included high officials of the U.S. government. The 90-minute program, part of the "American Experience" series, was based partly on The & Abandonment of the Jews (1984) by David S. Wyman, who appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust...