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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post said that Habibie, after repeatedly promising to keep the peace, was either being duplicitous or had lost control of his senior military leaders, who were vehemently opposed to independence for East Timor.
On virtually every page he risks journalistic scrotal torque as he stiff-arms his reluctant editors and sucks up to his sources, who he wants the reader to believe are as duplicitous and sleazy as the president and his sock-puppet mouthpieces.
Commentators also debated whether the mole's exposure proved Russia was still a duplicitous enemy.
Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."
An article calls new Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller "pathologically duplicitous," "craven," and phenomenally corrupt.