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...decorated Viet Nam veteran and former policeman who rated high marks in a previous job as a hospital security chief, McKinnon, 39, was denounced as a "pathological liar" by Sharpton. McKinnon was quickly subpoenaed to testify before the special grand jury investigating the case in Poughkeepsie. Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, declared that "if Mr. McKinnon is right, then Attorneys Mason and Maddox and the Rev. Sharpton have been consciously perpetrating a hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowing The Whistle on Tawana | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...long after, the future vagabond and his brother were sent to boarding school in England where, he recalls, "as English boys who had barely heard of cricket we were natural targets." Classmates branded him a liar when he told them of warriors and lion hunts. Rejected, he withdrew into primal memories of Abyssinia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Before the Sands Ran Out THE LIFE OF MY CHOICE | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...Robert Dole: Mean. The Kansas Senator is already diving into trouble with the vice president calling him a liar in New Hampshire and viciously attacking him on the floor of the Senate last week. Now that Dole is going on the offensive, his malevolent approach may damage his image as powerfully as it did in his bid for the vice presidency on the Ford ticket in 1976. What a guy to negiotiate peace treaties-- watch out Gorbachev...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: A Word to the Wise, Advice to the Ailing | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

Last week, at the opening of Chambers' trial, angry demonstrators protested what they called the defense's "blame the victim" strategy. Prosecuting Attorney Linda Fairstein, labeling Chambers a "consummate liar," promised to introduce evidence that the couple did not have intercourse. "There was no sex," she told the jury. "Only death." If convicted of second-degree murder, Chambers faces a possible life sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City: No Sex, Only Death | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...moment, Wright's position in Washington is saturated with acid. Since he became Speaker a year ago, he has unwisely poured out his contempt for Ronald Reagan in dozens of not-so-private gatherings around town. Wright has called the President a "liar" and worse. White House aides, no strangers to bile, whispered again last week, "Jim Wright is a mean-spirited snake-oil salesman, and nobody wants to deal with him." On the Nicaraguan flap, Wright and Secretary of State George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Speaker's Itch for Power | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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