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...cases. "What you can do is say, 'Let's talk about the fact that a 19-year-old girl had sex with a basketball player who was married, and maybe her boss found out. What was she to do?' That's the approach. It's not: 'She's a liar; she's evil; she's a nut job.' It's: 'She's 19; she's a young woman; she made a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say It Ain't So, Kobe | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...huge? It wouldn't have been a very big deal without the deepening crisis in Iraq. But it also has ballast because it clarifies an aspect of George W. Bush's essential character--specifically, the problem he has with telling the truth. I am not saying Bush is a liar. Lying is witting: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." This is weirder than that. The President seems to believe that wishing will make it so--and he is so stupendously incurious that he rarely makes an effort to find the truth of the matter. He misleads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Misleads Himself | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...huge? It wouldn't have been a very big deal without the deepening crisis in Iraq. But it also has ballast because it clarifies an aspect of George W. Bush's essential character - specifically, the problem he has with telling the truth. I am not saying Bush is a liar. Lying is witting: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." This is weirder than that. The President seems to believe that wishing will make it so - and he is so stupendously incurious that he rarely makes an effort to find the truth of the matter. He misleads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Misleads Himself | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

...Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire,” another chided...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sen. Clinton Signs For Fans | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

...Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted death) called Franklin a "conceited scribbler" who had "manifested himself a fool and a liar." Poor Richard responded that all of these defamatory protestations indicated that the real Leeds must indeed be dead and his new almanac a hoax by someone else. "Mr. Leeds was too well bred to use any man so indecently and scurrilously, and moreover his esteem and affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Ben's 7 Great Virtues | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

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