Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dirty little secret in the politics of virtue is that conservatives aren't vastly better at taking this sort of bitter medicine. Newt Gingrich, as is well known, left his first wife and their two daughters. Bob Dole left his first wife and their daughter. And both men, in classic male fashion, then married younger women. Does Republican moralist-in-chief Bennett think Dole and Gingrich, in this regard, are good? Does he think they're bad? He has never said. But if a take-no-prisoners crusade to restore the American family doesn't involve heaping shame on this...
...listen in on a phone conversation he had with the President. Morris told her before it was made public, she said, that NASA had evidence of life on Mars, and he let her read an advance copy of Hillary Clinton's convention speech. He told her his secret nickname for Clinton--"the Monster," inspired by Clinton's temper. Morris told Rowlands that he calls Hillary "the Twister," because she stirs up trouble. In a notebook that Rowlands says is her diary of the affair, she recorded Morris telling her he also called Clinton "the blind man" because "he's super...
...course, have been fabricated), Rowlands provided other corroborating evidence, including tapes of Morris' voice on her answering machine and a canceled check for a college speaking engagement that he had signed over to her. Star editors were also impressed when Rowlands said Morris had confided in her a "military secret"--that signs of life on Mars had been discovered. It wasn't until a week later, the Star reported, that the news was announced...
...plenty of sycophants around to give in to his demands. Two weeks ago, several hundred of my fellow members of the National Association of Black Journalists meekly permitted Farrakhan's Fruit of Islam to frisk them before they entered the hall where he was speaking--an indignity the Secret Service does not inflict on those who are visiting the President of the U.S. Then they cheered enthusiastically as Farrakhan denounced black reporters who work for the white press as "slaves." Even though the overwhelming majority of N.A.B.J. members work for the white media, they gave Farrakhan a standing ovation...
...image on the screen right now, so a politician's moral position five minutes ago, or five years ago, does not have to conform to his opinion now. History as recorded by television is like Heraclitus' river: You cannot step in the same stream twice. And the wonderful secret is, you don't have...