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...change in the system by which each state had one vote in Congress. Delegate George Read had asked the legislature to impose that restriction because, as he wrote to a colleague, "such is my jealousy of most of the larger States that I would trust nothing to their candor, generosity or ideas of public justice...
...psyche and his message. All his Democratic competitors save Jesse Jackson seem bland by comparison, technocrats who emphasize specific programs and highlight their resumes. Biden's long suit is his appeal to idealism, his promise to be a President who would lead by strength of will and uncompromising candor...
...conspicuously lacking in candor and truthfulness...has no business gracing--or disgracing--Harvard University's 1987 Commencement as its principle speaker," the historian wrote yesterday in an opinion piece published in the the Boston Globe...
...stems from a single cause: the politics of AIDS. The Surgeon General is the Administration's leading advocate of the view that sex education is the most effective way to limit the AIDS epidemic. Beginning with a controversial report to the President last October, Koop has insistently argued that candor and condoms are more effective public-health tools than sermons on chastity. Last week Koop was the lone Administration dissenter from a plan for widespread AIDS testing. His argument: "I don't think anyone should be forced to have a test, in view of the stigma that goes along with...
...against the cult of candor, of letting it all hang out. To moralize on this issue in the campaign without talking about truly important things like the arms race trivializes our society. No one can afford to be President who has no imagination, but I fear that is what we are beginning...