Word: documented
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...African blacks are excluded from the Mormon priesthood because they are said to be descendants of Noah's cursed son Ham and his wife Egyptus, a descendant of the fratricide Cain. Supported mainly by the Mormon Book of Abraham, a document "translated" from Egyptian burial papyri by Joseph Smith in 1835, this teaching resembles the Southern Christian theology that was used to justify slavery. Historians have noted that the Mormons, who began as egalitarians, were sojourning in slave-state Missouri-and having serious troubles with their Missouri neighbors about their free black brethren-when Smith's revelation...
Both the Harvard and Stanford studies are inconclusive, as the experimenters themselves recognize. Part of the problem in trying to document the psychological effects of TM, says the British medical journal Lancet, is that it is "difficult to exclude the effects of suggestion." So difficult, in fact, that TM's true value-or lack of it-seems likely to remain in doubt for a long time...
...reliable people." What organizations received the money? "I'm not going to divulge that." Finally a reporter suggested that the unsubstantiated allegation smacked of McCarthyism, and McGovern answered: "The difference is that this is the truth. Joe McCarthy lied to us." Later, a McGovern operative did attempt to document the charge at least in part...
...this last clause was soothing to Marlborough (whose client for the Rousseau, Italian Industrialist Gianni Agnelli, instantly cancelled the deal when the story broke), it was balm to Hoving, who derides the A.D.A. statement as "an absurd document-perfectly specious and contradictory." The Rousseau, he adds, "was of no importance to us" (although the Met owns only one other). This is not a view shared by most art experts or by Marlborough's senior partner, Frank Lloyd, who says, "In my opinion, it's a masterwork." Hoving defends the disputed sale in terms of the need to trim...
...artful honesty, Riegle discusses the stresses that destroyed his marriage. We also see his subsequent psychological recovery and relationship with another woman. These, combined with the simple, idyllic, and infrequent moments Riegle enjoys with his children, give O Congress an appreciable human impact. The result is rare; a political document of visceral as well as intellectual substance...