Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among its many virtues, From Beirut to Jerusalem shows why messengers from the Middle East who try to remain impartial will find many factions eager to throttle them. The place lives and dies on faith and mythology; a mere fact is useless, possibly dangerous, until it has been modified to fit within a dogma. Most of the region's bloodiest episodes during the '80s, the author argues, arose from failures to recognize complex realities...
...fact, betting on sporting events other than horse or dog races or jai alai is generally a crime in every state except Nevada. But by now the prohibition, like many other antigambling laws, is hardly ever enforced. Betting goes on so openly that all but a handful of newspaper sports pages print the odds on baseball, football and basketball games. During the football season, the New York Daily News publishes four regular and two rotating columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance...
...would lie awake at night and relive every race, every game, to figure out where I miscalculated." He never did figure it out; by 1985 he had run up debts of $200,000 and joined Gamblers Anonymous. Family and friends thought he had kicked his habit, but in fact he had simply run out of money. In 1987, as his insurance business began to recover, Marc started going to the track again. He conned his wife into letting him take out a second mortgage on their home, telling her it was for investment; he lost the money gambling. His wife...
Walesa and his allies are discovering the cruelty of the ironic punishment that the Greek goddess Nemesis reserved for her cheekiest victims: granting their very desires. Solidarity's success at the polls exposes the fact that for all its popularity, it has no program or philosophy. Its leaders are dancing desperately to avoid being forced to share power with the Communists. It is as if the penalty one pays for losing an election in Poland is having to be in power...
...fact, the majority of gay men and women still do not openly disclose their sexual orientation because prejudice remains so deeply embedded in the U.S. About 25 million Americans are gay, but society's institutions, from government to the church and the press to advertising, virtually ignore their existence. "America is not only reluctant to recognize news events or address public issues concerning gays, it also refuses to educate citizens on the nature of homosexuality itself," write the authors. Americans, they hold, continue to harbor distorted perceptions. Among them: people choose to be gay, homosexuals are kinky sex addicts...