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...growing opinion, even among journalists, that reporters place far too much faith in people unwilling to back up what they say. Often, unnamed sources seek to advance some personal agenda. Sometimes they tell lies and lend extra credence to falsehood by peddling it as top-secret truth. While Adams' abrupt withdrawal, at the end of a weekend during which he had raised $130,000 for his campaign, seemed like a tacit admission of guilt, he insisted that in his case the allegations -- which range from uninvited fondling of women to drugging their drinks, undressing them and purportedly raping...
...voters "no new taxes" and won the White House in return. Two years later, he raised taxes in exchange for a budget deal. But when polls in Georgia showed that even country-club Republicans thought Bush was a flip- flopper who didn't stand for anything, Bush pulled another abrupt about- face. "This tax thing is still really bothering people, isn't it?" Bush mused to an Oval Office visitor last Monday morning. "Maybe I should clear...
...hundred thousand other Japanese-American citizens were falsely told by Earl Warren (who was attorney general of California at the time) that these barbed-wire outlets were a military necessity, that they were not being punished but protected, that Japanese Americans would thank the government later for the abrupt curtailment of their most basic human liberties...
Director Dvora Inwood chose her actors and actresses well. Some of the best acting at Harvard commanded the cramped Leverett House Old Library Friday night, making the best of an awkward set and abrupt lighting. The actresses and actors maintained a dizzyingly-paced performance with emotional depth...
...result is something very much like a current Reebok crosstrainer commercial, the kind of thing the play seems to mock. The 27 scene changes are clocked and set into motion with finesse, a credit to the lighting and set crew. However, these changes also pose a problem. Too abrupt and vague at times, they tend to jerk the audience, confusing an otherwise entertaining plot and sleek production...