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...lied, she lied, they lied, we all lie, to ourselves and one another, in hearings and in print, at dinner and on Nightline, lest we give one inch in a war over abortion that rages on. Occasionally a lie is recanted, as happened when abortion-rights lobbyist Ron Fitzsimmons said that there are many more dilation-and-evacuation (D & E) procedures than he had admitted. With the "partial birth" abortion bill coming to the House floor this week for the second time, and with every chance of passage, even partial truth on the subject is elusive...
...practice, but that's what's so fun about covering golf. Total anonymity provides for maximum imagination. I've never lied about scores or performances, but it's always fun to embelish: "Choo left his tricky left-to-right twelve-foot birdie putt an inch above the cup and had to tap in for par on the sixteenth hole" is a lot more interesting to write than "Choo parred number...
...school trips to the planetarium. But as one gets closer, what looks like a sea of stars metamorphosizes into a myriad of glass bubbles, stretching from the floor to the ceiling and spanning a length of about 20 feet. According to one of Reynolds' assistants, the approximately ten thousand inch-wide bubbles may look lethal to touch, but they break more like cellophane than like glass--no dangerous shards, only a delicate cracking and crumbling...
...around the world, the panel cautioned, the Goldilocks economy is not always as lustrous as it appears. China, its treasury bursting with foreign reserves and its stock markets surging, is poised for stable growth, Courtis said. "And if China moves ahead an inch, the rest of Asia moves ahead a foot. We're going to have a very strong year from Beijing to Bombay." But China's July 1 takeover of Hong Kong could still pose a problem. Courtis optimistically declared that even though Hong Kong's physical and business environment will become more polluted and "the people will...
...later said, "turned me against the hypocrisy of organized religion." At 18 he took a job as a rock journalist on a tiny Florida paper before deciding to launch his own career in music. In 1994 he was discovered by Trent Reznor, leader of the popular band Nine Inch Nails and one of the architects of "industrial rock," an abrasive offshoot of punk and heavy metal. With his first two records, Portrait of an American Family and Smells Like Children, Manson quickly built a passionate following. It includes his father Hugh, who says he loves his son's music because...