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...inhabitants to avoid culpability, then writes a beautiful, passionate elegy to Saul’s family. Later, he impregnates a woman named Bathsheba, then tries to disown the child by calling the woman’s husband from the battlefield and getting the two to “lie together.” When the husband refuses, David sends him to the battlefront, “that he may be smitten...
...have started administering anonymous breathalyzer tests in front of dorms between 10 pm and 3 a.m. The results have shown that the majority of students come home having done little drinking, according to Perkins. And as Perkins says, “[Blood Alcohol Content] tests don’t lie...
...even - quietly - share clients. "Thousands of people are coming here every week," says Caoimhín Mac Giolla Mhín from the Irish Republican Army prisoners' group, Coiste, as another bus passes along the Catholic Falls Road. "They're not coming here for fishing. Not everybody wants to lie on a beach." Onboard one of Lavelle's buses last week, 40 people listened attentively to the quieter parts of Belfast's history, like the building of the Titanic in a local shipyard. But their necks craned whenever they passed a temple of recent turbulence, like police stations surrounded...
...Harvard College and Harvard Business School alumnus, who graduated into the teeth of the Vietnam War in 1968 when the draft was in effect, and who was forced to lie at that time about my sexual orientation in order to enlist in the U.S. Navy, I resent to this day that I was forced to be dishonest in order to serve our country. Please be vocal in working to allow all citizens to serve in the military without compromising personal integrity...
There is a tendency in the greater public to look at rural America with nostalgia, imagining these places as pictures on postcards—quaint, beautiful, pristine paradises. Beyond the gilded picture of the idealized small town lie issues of pressing importance that must be addressed...