Word: braved
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Anita Hill does not come off as a sociopath. She comes off as a brave, suffering and credible witness. She passed a lie detector test. She is a well-respected law professor. She has four credible witnesses testifying that she had told them about her difficulties with Clarence Thomas when they began...
Hill "comes off as a brave, suffering and credible witness," the majority says. Only the most biased observer could argue that Thomas did not. I wanted to believe Hill. I wanted not to believe Thomas. But even though he's dodged questions before and asserted idiotically that he never thought about Roe, I cannot say with certainty that I "believe" he is lying...
...course. I have been privileged enough to know people who are real heroes; there're not many left in the world, but there are some. The ones I've known aren't perfect human beings. They're immensely brave, brave beyond any dreams that I or perhaps you could ever have, and their view of life is so incredibly self-sacrificing. But they are not always saints in their love life, in their life as parents or as children of parents, or even in the friendships of normal life. In other words, they are human and full of faults...
...just meant that I'll be supportive of any of my friends brave enough to come out. It's a very difficult thing to do in the age that we live in," said Rachel J. Harris...
...impossible to imagine demonstrators chanting "Down with nuclear SLCMs." Which proves once more that George Bush will never be a sloganeer, and he still has not quite mastered the vision thing. After excessive hype by White House aides, Bush's speech Friday evening offered not a promise of a brave new nuclear-free world but a complicated mix of ideas old and new, unilateral actions and proposals for fresh negotiations with Moscow. And in those negotiations, the U.S. opening position to some extent will continue the old game of "Let's get rid of the mainstays of your nuclear arsenal...