Word: candor
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...Clinton himself won't speak on the scandal until after the State of the Union, so Hillary's response is something to be grateful for. But her relative candor leaves the couple little room to maneuver in the future. Hillary has promised much in the way of answers ? now her husband must deliver...
Grove gave TIME unprecedented access to his life and work. He spoke with startling candor about such experiences as the Holocaust and the scarlet fever that left him hearing impaired. He also shared his wit and warmth with TIME editors at dinner at his rambling ranch house. Sitting around the table was Intel's past, present and future: Grove's wife Eva, who fell in love with him when he was working as a busboy; Gordon Moore, Intel's first CEO and Grove's mentor; Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist who underwrote the company in 1968; and Craig Barrett, Intel...
...Kundun, both of which tell the story of his early life. Sitting cross-legged in his armchair, rocking back and forth as he spoke and always keeping an eye out to make sure my cup of tea was full, the famously accessible doctor of metaphysics talked with full-bodied candor, for day after day, about his death, the increasingly public divisions within the Tibetan community and the new pressures of his spotlighted life. Accepting donations from Shoko Asahara, the head of the Aum Shinrikyo group in Japan that later allegedly planted deadly sarin gas in the subways of Tokyo...
...early in her reign, and she sees more ordinary people on a regular basis than do most Cabinet ministers and newspaper editors. In 1992 she began paying taxes and reduced the number of royals who receive state funds (and the annus horribilis speech itself was a notable instance of candor). Nevertheless, the election of Blair and the death of Diana have intensified the process of bringing the royals closer to the people, and last week's events offered a striking case in point...
...said a young mother with tears rolling down her cheeks. A driver in Baghdad told a similar story about the deaths of a sister and a three-year-old daughter. "We had no money, no medicine to save them." "What future do we have?" he asked with remarkable candor. "Our problem doesn't come from America. It comes from within...