Word: duping
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...intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love with chocolate milk and trips to Disney World. To the relatives and their vocal, anti-Castro, Cuban-American supporters, Juan Miguel was a dupe or worse who sought his son's return to hell. The father talked about strafing his adversaries with a rifle. The relatives dared the government to take Elian by force. Finally it came to that: a predawn raid that produced dueling images--a terrified Elian cornered in a closet...
...despairing 5 percent or so convinced that the whole idea of "differences" between the parties is a colossal dupe, all the ideological whooping and hollering of Bush and Gore could be seen as almost idealistic. There are principles at work here, believe...
Still, facts do not deter quacks or fanatics and the parents they dupe. School boards across the country this fall were again pressured to admit unvaccinated students. That would be a disservice not only to these kids, who would be vulnerable to a host of diseases, but to their classmates whose shots didn't take or who were excused from vaccinations for medical or religious reasons...
...shrugged. "On the other side of life, he can't get mad when he hears from some 60-year-old infant, some poor dupe like this guy in Queens who kneels down in church with two old women to give him some clout. He calls up, 'Please, Jesus, I'm playing my dead father's police-shield number in the lottery. Please let me win. It'll make up for the terrible loss...