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...mother, my brothers, my whole family, they are all in Taiwan," said Lin, of Acton, Mass. "I still consider Taiwan my home, and I'm very concerned about its future. What I'm doing now is trying to express my views...
...Washington facts sometimes tend to mislead. All the facts sometimes tend to mislead absolutely." This play on Lord Acton's pontification about the corrupting effects of power appeared 24 years ago in Ward Just's The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert. Since then, Just has published more than a dozen works of political fiction that have done what journalism rarely accomplishes: dramatize the work of government through complex characters whose heavy responsibilities defy easy moralizing...
...going to hit [the president]," said Dave Sansone, a resident of Acton, Mass., as he savored Clinton's victory at the Boston Sheraton Tuesday night. "There is a good chance he'll be impeached in two years...
...speaker at the meeting had come from Acton to describe that town's difficulties with the W.R. Grace company's developments...
...19th century English writer Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past. By this stern standard, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has done his job with a pen in one hand, a noose in the other...