Word: revealed
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Administrators and students who worked on the search refused to reveal the identify of the new first-year dean last night...
...despite the campus turmoil, Peninsula council members say they will not reveal their specific stand on recent events until the issue premieres...
...GIVES NOTHING AWAY TO REVEAL that near the end of Alice McDermott's lyrical novel At Weddings and Wakes, there is a joyous wedding celebration. The bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer. Even Momma, the embittered matriarch of the Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn...
...wish to appear in an Exemplary Ordeal. Ashe has AIDS -- a fact that the public knows now because the Press (in this case a reporter and an editor from USA Today) reached into the most private precinct of his life (inside his body itself) and forced him to reveal his disease to millions of strangers. Ashe and his wife Jeanne have a five-year-old daughter. The girl was entitled to privacy and to tenderness in how she would be told, and when...
...specific accusations against Clinton are a mixed bag, involving two kinds of "character" questions. One set focuses on private character -- allegations of adultery and marijuana smoking, for example -- that have no correlation to presidential performance, except for whatever a candidate's comments about them reveal as to his general honesty or lack of it. Regrettably, this group of problems has received the most attention because it is -- well, sexier than questions about what might be called public character. These are matters such as conflict-of-interest situations and how a candidate might carry out the duties of office. The common...