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...Harvard, coach Tim Murphy figured out the necessity of having a solid kicker a year ago. Tired of going for fourth-and-tens on the opponents 15 yard line and having to face reporters armed solely with the statement, “I’d be less than honest if I said I had any faith in our kicking unit,” Murphy went out in offseason and rectified the situation...
...children had to make do with imagining they could watch films through the boy's "magic" binoculars. This fable of the passions and recriminations of youth is set in a dreamscape that mixes memory with wish fulfillment. It's China's Cinema Paradiso, but a much more honest, less cloying film...
...that he would never drink alcohol again, he made restitution with his wife and others he had harmed. "I started telling my wife what kind of a fellow I was," he says. "I did this for three nights to get all of the garbage out. I wanted to be honest about everything in my life." He says his wife was grateful for the talk and then understood his behavior. "Now we could start our family and raise the children with the same guidelines. We had family quiet time every day. That's the way we raised the whole family." Houck...
Last week, I heard honest words from a not-so-often-honest man. The President of the United States of America declared that the war on terrorism cannot be won. In an interview with NBC news, President Bush said: “I don’t think you can win the war on terror.” I always suspected that the war on terrorism could not be won, and certainly not with the kind of bankrupt strategy being followed today. A strategy entirely dedicated to creating obstacles to stop terrorists, rather than a strategy that also aims...
What the people of the United States need today is honest reflection on the problem of terror. In times of war, the greatest difficulty comes in trying to stop and take a good look at the enemy—to understand where the enemy is coming from...