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Traill eventually turned up so many discrepancies that he branded Schliemann a "pathological liar" who invented events in his diaries and books or appropriated them from other people's lives. The discovery of Priam's Treasure was evidently one more such invention. Schliemann wrote that he slipped the objects into the shawl of his second wife, Sophia, to hide them from larceny-minded laborers. According to his field notes, it didn't happen that way at all. Besides, Sophia was in Greece at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TROY'S LOST TREASURE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Senate committee investigating Whitewater has suspended hearings while Democrats and Republicans bicker over funding, but the testimony by witnesses has already led South Carolina Republican Lauch Faircloth to label the First Lady a liar. Not all the news is bad for the Clintons: two weeks ago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (which took over for the now defunct Resolution Trust Corp.) concluded that neither Hillary Clinton nor the Rose Law Firm should be sued for any losses incurred by the failed S&L Madison Guaranty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON THE ROAD TO SCANDAL | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...pristine image speaks to his skill in attacking his opponents for their attacks on their opponents. With his genial, schoolteachery manner he can deliver threats in an unthreatening way. He can imply that Bob Dole is too old and it doesn't sound mean, that Bill Clinton is a liar and it doesn't sound disrespectful. When he arrived Tuesday night in Laconia, the hall was packed and sprinkled with plaid; the crowd was ready to shop for something new. Without so much as a stumble, Alexander delivered the smoothest speech since Clinton's State of the Union. By targeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: INSIDE THE RACE: THE SECRET TEST OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...tell the American people the truth about his flat tax. Instead, he has tried to fool the American people into believing that they can get something for nothing: higher economic growth without greater economic inequality. Hopefully, after four years of President Clinton, the American people will not place another liar in the White House...

Author: By Bradley L. Whitman, | Title: The New Voodoo | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...When you reveal your identity in two months, 20 years, or whatever, will your friends think you have been a "congenital liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERVIEW : A PASSION FOR ANONYMITY | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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