pre·var·i·cate (pr-vr-kt)
intr.v. pre·var·i·cat·ed, pre·var·i·cat·ing, pre·var·i·cates
To stray from or evade the truth; equivocate. See Synonyms at lie.
[Latin praevricr, praevrict- : prae-, pre- + vricre, to straddle (from vricus, straddling, from vrus, bent).]
pre·vari·cation n.
pre·vari·cator n.
Word of the Day "prevaricating"
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Tank Man - In Memory of those who fought or fight for Freedom
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Arthur Tsang Hin Wah of Reuters took several shots, but the one shot of Tank Man climbing the tank was chosen from his batch of photos.
"Tank Man", second from left, prepares to face down the row of oncoming tanks. Photo by Terril Jones (Associated Press).
Court orders Ottawa to let Abdelrazik return to Canada
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The Federal Court of Canada on Thursday ordered the federal government to allow the return of a Montreal man stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect, ruling his charter rights have been breached.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, 47, was arrested and detained while visiting his mother in Sudan in 2003 and for the last year has been living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum.
Former KGB agent takes sanctuary to avoid deportation
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A former Soviet KGB agent has taken sanctuary in a Vancouver church in order to avoid his scheduled deportation early Wednesday morning, CBC News has learned.
Mikhail Lennikov lost his last chance to stay in Canada on Monday when a Federal Court Judge upheld a decision by the Federal Public Safety Minister that Lennikov could not remain in Canada.
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Alberta pigs believed to be infected with swine flu
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Pigs at an Alberta farm caught the same swine flu strain that has sickened hundreds of humans around the world, federal officials said Saturday.
Read more »Obama references Churchill
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Obama has been criticised, in particular by Cheney, for making public four secret Bush administration memos detailing interrogation techniques approved for use by the CIA, including waterboarding...."I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British, during World War Two...And Churchill said 'we don't torture'.."
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Afghan Politics: Let's Be Real
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How US promoted corruption while locking out true democracy.The outpouring of Western anger and shock earlier this month over a new Afghan law that legalizes marital rape and confines women to their homes demonstrates how out of touch Western countries are with the monster they have created in that benighted country.
Read more »Pirate Bay Owners: 1 Yr Prison, $3.6 m fines
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Founders Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, along with two other employees Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström, were sentenced to a year in jail after being found guilty in a Swedish court of making 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal downloading on the website Piratebay.org.
Read more »Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009
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47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britain's Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.
Read more »VICTORY! Vermont votes for marriage equality!
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Vermont becomes the first state to recognize marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples through legislation.
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Our Soulless Government - war on nature
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Its war on nature speaks of a spiritual void.What I predicted some years ago to then Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Minister John Van Dongen has come to pass.
The environment, quite apart from global warming, has become an election issue -- big time.
Read more »The quiet unravelling of Canadian democracy
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Muzzled MPs. A powerless cabinet. Politicized senior bureaucrats. Unaccountable parties. Canada's democracy is in trouble. To fix it we have to fix it we have to connect the dots.
Read more »Ottawa traps man in 'Kafkaesque nightmare' in Sudan, MPs say
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Once a terror suspect, Montrealer has a ticket home home but no passport.Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler and other opposition MPs joined forces on Tuesday to plead the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montrealer who has a ticket to fly home on Friday but remains in limbo at Canada's embassy in Sudan.
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Canadian officials probe Khadr lawyer firing
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A diplomatic row could be brewing over the surpise decision by the U.S. government to fire terrorism suspect Omar Khadr's military-appointed lawyer.
Read more »GM 'prepared' for possible bankruptcy
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Ailing US auto giant General Motors has said it is "prepared" for bankruptcy proceedings if not able to restructure out of court, according to a regulatory filing it made to the Treasury Department.
Read more »Researcher treated with vaccine healthy 21 days after Ebola accident
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A German researcher who received an experimental Canadian vaccine after being exposed to the deadly Ebola virus has passed the disease's 21-day incubation period without showing any sign of falling ill.
Read more »With motherhood, jazz artist Diana Krall finally content
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Between a new album, an upcoming tour, producing a record for Barbra Streisand, a marriage to Elvis Costello and two-year-old twin boys, it's hard to imagine Diana Krall can relax these days.
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'Dirty Dancing' cast to take final bow in Toronto this weekend
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There will be no more "Dirty Dancing" in Toronto after this weekend.
The musical, based on the iconic 1987 film that starred Patrick Swayze as a brooding dance instructor and Jennifer Grey as his innocent love interest, wraps up this Sunday.
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Quebec contract killer pleads guilty to 27 counts of murder
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A Quebec hit man who turned police informant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to another 27 charges of first-degree murder related mainly to the province's biker war.
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Statement from Michael Moore on Departure of GM CEO Rick Wagoner:
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"I have never heard of such a thing in all my days: The main representative of the people ordering a corporate chieftain to step down — today! And not just any corporate CEO, but the head of the company that has spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 than any other corporation in the world." – Michael Moore
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