Word: explaining
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Biles is chief researcher for a royal commission appointed last year to delve into the phenomenon. Last week the commission released an interim report attempting to explain the causes of Aboriginal deaths in custody and offer some prescriptions to prevent them. "Australia must know the truth behind the deaths," said the chairman of the commission, Justice James Muirhead...
Derwinski ought to tell us whether he knew about his associates' backgrounds. If he says he didn't, he ought to explain how he remained ignorant in the face of abundant evidence. Otherwise, we must know why he didn't denounce these people and seek to distance himself from them...
...Derwinski can't give satisfactory answers, he should be disqualified from service in Bush's cabinet. Even if he isn't anti-Semitic, an inability to explain his silence would signify that he condones others' anti-Semitism. This is almost as reprehensible...
...POWER GAME (PBS, Jan. 2-5, 8 p.m. on most stations). Former New York Times correspondent Hedrick Smith tries to explain who really wields the clout in Washington in this series based on his book...
...news will be broken, when the Atlanta- based network airs CNN Presents the TIME Man of the Year, with anchor Mary Anne Loughlin and correspondent Mark Walton as co-hosts. The 30-minute program, produced in association with TIME, will explain how the selection was made and offer an in-depth profile. "It was a unique challenge to translate something that is essentially a print story into a visual and dynamic television presentation," says David McGowan, TIME's special-projects director, who assisted CNN's effort. "CNN's life was not made any easier by the fact that...