Word: candide
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...Ordinarily calm, even-handed, and intellectually honest, Fox was thrust unwittingly into the unfamiliar realm of the angry political diatribe when a guest lost his calm and flaunted his nasty, baseless feelings before the entire nation. Who was this guest who so compromised Fox’s reputation for candid honesty and unfaltering decency? None other than former President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton. Perhaps some readers will be unsurprised by Clinton’s conduct. After all, he hails from the time before Republicans brought class and dignity back to Washington. Even while president, his demeanor never...
Heads of state are sometimes too candid for their own good. But rarely do two of them blurt out what they're really thinking almost simultaneously, as George Bush and Pervez Musharraf did this week - and on a topic as touchy as U.S.-Pakistani cooperation against terrorism. Asked by CNN on Wednesday if he'd order U.S. military operations inside Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden if there was solid intelligence on his location, Bush said "absolutely." The next day CBS released portions of a 60 Minutes interview with Musharraf, to be aired Sunday, in which he claims that...
...Dynamic emerging economies need a greater role in managing the global economy. The IMF has set up a mechanism, called multilateral consultations, designed to bring together groups that are economically large enough to resolve common problems while being numerically small enough to engage in candid discussion. Depending on the problem, the group will vary?for example, the first multilateral consultation brings together China, the Euro area, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. to discuss how to narrow global trade imbalances...
...only positive that emerged from these awkward conversations was the realization that honesty really is the best policy. Even though being candid was hurtful for all five of us—and particularly for the roommate at the center of the drama—it allowed us to recognize that our differences were irreconcilable. We became unified in our frustration that our proctor was not acting fast enough, and took our situation to the FDO ourselves...
...daily life for American soldiers. Bobby is unstinting in his praise and admiration for the courage and integrity of the American servicemen and -women in Iraq. He is well aware of the risks they are taking on a daily basis. But I believe that journalists like Bobby, with their candid reporting from the war zone, are upholding the values that our soldiers take an oath to protect: our freedom to think and believe and to act on those thoughts and beliefs. "Whenever the people are well-informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." Even though...