Word: factual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is proposing something contrary to what their own Design School set as factual parameters," said Harvard Square preservationist Gladys Gifford, Gifford recalled a 1984 Graduate School of Design study--whose purpose was to suggest strategies for limiting development in Harvard Square--which targeted the south side of Mt. Auburn St. as dangerously susceptible to development...
Some legal experts not connected with the case thought that Judge Sofaer's complex definition of malice represented a departure from precedent. "It is contrary to established law to equate exaggeration with substantial factual falsity," observed Richard Winfield, a publishing specialist in the Manhattan firm of Rogers & Wells. Said Henry Kaufman, general counsel for the Libel Defense Resource Center, a New York-based media group: "It's a Rube Goldberg kind of charge. I'm concerned, in the context of this case, that jurors will turn the concept of material exaggeration or distortion around to secondguess editorial judgment...
...will not go on to enumerate the many misspellings, grammatical mistakes, misrepresentations, and additional factual errors strewn throughout Mr. Duke's review, as I do not wish to be as wordy as he. But his writings and scholarship do make one wonder about the state of the liberal arts education at Harvard. Perhaps English is not Mr. Duke's first language. That would explain shot. Benjamin Hart Author of Poisoned...
...half brothers and half sisters drift in and out of the household. One former wife is abroad with the CIA; another runs the business end of an ashram under the name Mother Devi. Talk is plentiful, but communication is illusive. "There must be something in family life that generates factual error," muses Jack. "Overcloseness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps something even deeper, like the need to survive...
...Monopoly- like game called Class Struggle, in which workers moved a little hammer around . a board while capitalists moved a top hat. With such advocacy, wrote Bork, Ollman had made himself a public figure and therefore "must accept the banging and jostling of political debate" in which some factual assertions should be treated as "rhetorical hyperbole" and hence as opinions...