Word: deceit
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...five lawyers and one retired schoolteacher--most of whom, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, are Democrats and might thus be considered sympathetic to the President. Nevertheless, they found that Clinton had engaged in "serious misconduct" that was "prejudicial to the administration of justice" through "dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation," for which disbarment was deemed the appropriate penalty...
...Governors Huey and Earl Long, the first politician-kings of the banana republic of Louisiana, were watching last week. With testimony about cash left in Dumpsters and hidden under frozen ducks, and good old-fashioned bagmen bundling and transporting the loot, it all seemed refreshingly honest compared with the deceit of PACs, soft money and other modern-day shams. Edwards' wife Candy, who at 35 looks young enough to be his granddaughter, took it all in from the front row. His son Stephen had an even better seat: he's one of six co-defendants. One last scene setter: Edwards...
...when Livesey portrays that most vulnerable side of Hazel Ransome's mind under attack, our natural impulse is to fear for her safety. Hazel, the amnesiac at the center of things, loses her memory, and in an improbable web of deceit, her ex-fianc Jonathan scrambles to keep it hidden. During a phone call with Jonathan, Hazel goes unconscious for a short while, slips into violent seizures, then reawakens with no memory of the last three years. Those three years were traumatically eventful-she fought with her lover over his infidelities, moved out of his apartment and appeared...
...that's just the first deceit. Beneath the gloomy skies and desolate snow of winter, the characters slowly unveil an intricate web of lies and betrayal that keeps the audience guessing to the very end. Rudy has to figure out a way to convince his captors that he really has Nick's knowledge (even though he doesn't) while planning a way to escape. It's a dizzying tale of greed and deceit in which no character is free from suspicion. And yes, backs are stabbed left and right...
...home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of a local Catholic university, and the recriminations that followed, confirmed the extent to which the battle for custody over Elian has become a showdown between Havana and Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban government accused O'Laughlin of lying, cruelty and deceit in her handling of the encounter, while the Dominican nun shot back that the event had been plagued by fear instilled by Havana in the hearts of the grandmothers - and Elian's Florida relatives allowed a leader of the exile community to interview the boy on a live TV broadcast...