This is also about whether the university has an obligation, moral or otherwise to dispel pervasive untruth.

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How can an untruth, ever prove another lie, to be in error?

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Nor did he resort to a face saving untruth like saying he wanted to devote more effort to music, a subject he had studied in college.

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Which perhaps make it fitting that some of the most seasoned travellers of all, management consultants, appear to have been inspired by just this sort of untruth-in-advertising.

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Could a man who serially told an untruth about one critical aspect of his military career - including on the Senate floor - be prevaricating as well about other aspects of his service?

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If anything, untruth is not dodged here but brought to the fore, as the men meet a teen-age runaway, Irena (Saoirse Ronan), who keeps changing her story, in a bid to earn their help.

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