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Said the Star: "We should have learned to suspect the casual statistic from the bitter history of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who transformed the numbers game into an impure art. The charge is justified. The plea is guilty. The pledge is to resharpen the instinct for skepticism that is the first requirement of responsible journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mea Culpa | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa Margherita clinic, where a dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking. They are protected from prying newsmen by dagger-brandishing Yemeni guards on the premises, jittery carabinieri at the portals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...boats have come back to the Atlantic, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander warned last week. Running out of new weapons, Hitler has tried to resharpen this old and blunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Cautious Return | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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