Word: sham
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...Knopf; 195 pages) soon begins revealing the painful realities beneath its chivalric trappings. The nameless narrator, an outsider desperate to attain the "careless gentility" of his well-born schoolmates, makes a terrible mistake and is expelled. The "sure and finished" teachers prove to be mortals with broken marriages and sham credentials. Recent graduates fizzle out or die young...
Producer Curtis Fox reported that as of today he had received roughly eight e-mails from listeners concerned about the sham proposal...
...chief proponent of sabermetrics, a school of baseball thought based on refined statistical analysis and stubborn opposition to anything as clumsy as common sense taking its place—authored a scathing rebuke to the Dowd Report shortly after its publication, claiming to expose it as a sham. James repeated those claims yesterday...
...down. Free at Last LAOS Belgian photojournalist Thierry Falise and French cameraman Vincent Reynaud were released a week after receiving 15-year prison sentences on charges of weapons possession and obstruction of justice, following a two-day trial criticized by international press groups and human-rights organizations as a sham. The two journalists were arrested on June 4 in the country's northeast, where they were reporting on an insurgency by ethnic Hmong guerrillas. A Hmong-American interpreter was also freed, but two Laotian guides remained in prison. Brutal Youth JAPAN A 12-year-old boy admitted murdering 4-year...
...brutal, unchecked crackdown in Aceh is transporting Indonesia back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship, exposing the military's reformist claims of recent years as a sham. With the Aceh campaign entering its third week, T.N.I.'s strategy-if that's the word-is shockingly clear. First, saturate the benighted countryside with trigger-happy soldiers and flush out any GAM suspects on a tsunami of civilian blood. Second, frighten into silence anyone who dares to report on the gory consequences, such as the summary execution of eight young men and boys at Peusangan in northern Bireun district...