Word: actually
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Barr reminded the jurors that Sharon's lawyers must prove "actual malice," that is, that TIME published the paragraph knowing it to be false, or with reckless disregard for whether it was false. He insisted that staff members had worked on the story in good faith. Halevy had several sources for his account of Sharon's talks with the Phalangists, the lawyer argued. After reading the Kahan report, "he believed those sources were correct." As for the other TIME journalists who relied on Halevy's reporting, Barr said, they had read the Kahan report and trusted Halevy completely...
...author traps himself between his desire to keep Pack of Lies true to life (the story is based on an actual spy case of the 1960s), and turning it into good theater. Realism wins out, but reality is rarely interesting on the stage. Bob and Barbara are conventional people, and they can do no more than have the conventional reactions to their predicament...
Moreover, Harvard officials were embarassed that while the University enjoyed a $1.7 billion endowment (now $2.324 billion), actual endowment per student was less than Yale, Princeton or Wellesley--even less than at the elite St. Paul's School in Concord...
...recent election, Bork continued, "many cruel and damaging things were said," some of which "may well meet the law's standards for actual malice --reckless disregard for the truth." But "we would be astonished and highly disapproving if the defamed candidate brought an action for libel...
...ramifications of this charge--any government appointee who had advantageous business relations with an administration official prior to assuming federal office could be publicly smeared and disqualified. Under this criteria most senior federal officials in the nation's history, both conservative and liberal, could be branded "unethical," questions of actual guilt or innocence notwithstanding...