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...emerges looking very pretty. Elizalde, who died in 1999, was something of a playboy gangster; the first wave of discoverers come across as naive, all too willing to believe the story Elizalde handed them; the debunkers are most ruthless of all, in Hemley's account, out to discredit personally anyone who believes in the Tasaday. If the original story seemed too good to be true, those who debunked it are portrayed here as unscholarly in their methods or worse. Some of the recantations seemed to have been extorted and were later disavowed. Anyway, what does it prove if, 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tribe Out of Time | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...Jackie Peterson: Several people who the police immediately tried to discredit the minute they came forward, so they're not coming forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Scott Peterson Is Innocent' | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...chief Aca Tomic and national security adviser Rade Bulatovic, were detained in relation to Djindjic's killing; they allegedly had secret meetings with two key suspects. Kostunica, who says he was unaware of the meetings, called the arrests "political," and accused the government of exploiting Djindjic's death to discredit the opposition. Fire Alert RUSSIA Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov ordered a fire-safety survey of all Russian schools following the deaths of 54 children in two separate school blazes. Twenty-two children died in northern Siberia and 32 died at a boarding school for the deaf in the southern republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro's Crackdown | 4/13/2003 | See Source »

...light of recent research that has attempted to discredit this argument, many proponents of the current policy have begun to cite privacy as its main purpose...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: Military Policy on Gays Unfounded | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

...court testimony, Giuffrè went on to say that during the late 1970s, top Mob boss Stefano Bontade used to visit Berlusconi at the businessman's villa on the outskirts of Milan. Speaking later with reporters, Berlusconi's lawyer flatly dismissed the testimony as "false" and an attempt to discredit the Prime Minister and his party. Dell'Utri remained calm throughout, but took the microphone at the very end for his right to "spontaneous remarks." "Mr. Giuffrè had never mentioned my name before today," Dell'Utri said, referring to previous closed-door depositions. "What mutual interests are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You Going To Believe? | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

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