Word: lied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a top U.S. adviser in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a major architect of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
...eminence of American power and, therefore, the absolute centrality of the presidential race in the drama of the world. It was then a Ptolemaic universe, revolving around the White House. What higher story to tell? Americans did not then lose wars. Presidents did not get assassinated, or lie, or have to barricade themselves in the White House...
Once again, a Democrat from Massachusetts is challenging a Republican Vice President for the White House. But beyond the surface similarities lie vast differences. -- Bush widens the likability gap with Dukakis. -- Nancy Reagan promised to stop borrowing designer dresses -- but has she? -- Helping the homeless -- a campaign essay. See Nation...
...IMAGINING THINGS, OR IS HE SERVING CHEAPER CHAMPAGNE? Many losers of the last year have escaped embarrassment by refusing to admit their setbacks. Robert Fomon, 62, who resigned as chairman of E.F. Hutton in May 1987, claims that "it is very fashionable to lie about ((the crash)). Now everyone says that he wasn't in the market." Several snipers contend that Donald Trump, the developer and casino kingpin, was bitten hard by the bear, even though he bragged late last October that he was smart enough to get out just in time...