Word: deviousness
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...stage) and not let them out till the bitterness erupted and the blood flowed. Such was Pinter's craft and nerve that the audience felt as caged as the characters. It just made sense to let him loose on Shaffer's one-room play about two devious men playing killer tricks on each other...
...come to these festive cities to be transported to other places, other sensibilities. In Lust, Caution it's Shanghai, 1942, where four Chinese ladies in the home of Mrs. Yee (Joan Chen) are deep in those twin devious pleasures, mahjong and gossip. What three of them don't know is that the fourth, Mak Tai Tai (Tang Wei), is embarking on an affair with Mrs. Yee's husband (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a high-level government official collaborating with the occupying Japanese. Indeed, her name is not Mak Tai Tai but Wang Chia Chih, an operative of the underground Resistance...
...Bush's commutation of Libby's sentence was clever indeed. The President has kept a loyalist from going to jail. By not receiving an outright pardon, Libby is effectually prevented from being forced to testify openly about events related to the Plame incident. The devious nature of this Administration cannot be overestimated Barbara Struthers, DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS...
...students also use devious methods to make the grade. Last year two dozen were caught being fed answers through Bluetooth headsets concealed under wigs. Earlier this month, police busted a ring issuing fake IDs to university students taking the test in place of high school candidates. The price? $2,500, more than twice Vietnam's average annual wage. Authorities have beefed up security: keeping test papers under lock and key; sequestering exam professors; calling in security to guard test sites...
...comparable to that received by corresponding University workers. Harvard should not, however, merely measure up to an “average” standard of employer conduct; it should exceed it significantly, wherever it’s financially feaible.Stand For Security claims that AlliedBarton is using a number of devious tactics to get around Harvard’s Wage and Benefit Parity Policy and effectively negotiate a contract that is less than satisfactory. The University, on the other hand, says that independent auditors found that AlliedBarton was in compliance with the Policy last year, and it is in the process...