Word: kernel
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...Whole kernel corn...
...Iraq. He claims Robert McFarlane was simultaneously National Security Adviser and the top Israeli spy in Washington. He impressed one reporter who has dealt with him as a fabricator who nonetheless did have connections in Israeli intelligence. Some of his stories are unbelievable; some seem to contain a kernel of truth. The big question is which are which...
Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas raised the question of sexual harassment to national prominence, only to reduce it again to its toughest and most intractable kernel: her word against his. Neither Hill nor Thomas was able to bring decisive evidence before the committee last week to support their widely differing versions of their dealings in the past. Thus the evidence of character counts all the more heavily. But even that appeared to weigh equally on both sides. Based on their backgrounds, Hill and Thomas seemed to be the two least likely people in the world to be involved...
Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas raised the question of sexual harassment to national prominence, only to reduce it again to its toughest and most intractable kernel: her word against his. Neither Hill nor Thomas was able to bring decisive evidence before the committee last week to support their widely differing versions of their dealings in the past. Thus the evidence of character counts all the more heavily. But even that appeared to weigh equally on both sides. Based on their backgrounds, Hill and Thomas seemed to be the two least likely people in the world to be involved...
Popular myth has it that college undergraduates will go to almost any length to have sex. But a recent study suggests that there is more than a kernel of truth in that statement...