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...people—who pretend to believe in democracy, who pretend to believe in freedom…who pretend to believe in tolerance—could fail to speak out energetically on behalf of [Israel]…One has to conclude that their liberalism is a sham...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You Say You Want a Resolution? | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...Knopf; 195 pages) soon begins revealing the painful realities beneath its chivalric trappings. The nameless narrator, an outsider desperate to attain the "careless gentility" of his well-born schoolmates, makes a terrible mistake and is expelled. The "sure and finished" teachers prove to be mortals with broken marriages and sham credentials. Recent graduates fizzle out or die young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Life | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

Producer Curtis Fox reported that as of today he had received roughly eight e-mails from listeners concerned about the sham proposal...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard to Go Virtual, So They Say | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

...chief proponent of sabermetrics, a school of baseball thought based on refined statistical analysis and stubborn opposition to anything as clumsy as common sense taking its place—authored a scathing rebuke to the Dowd Report shortly after its publication, claiming to expose it as a sham. James repeated those claims yesterday...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cable-Only Court Exonerates Pete Rose | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

...down. Free at Last LAOS Belgian photojournalist Thierry Falise and French cameraman Vincent Reynaud were released a week after receiving 15-year prison sentences on charges of weapons possession and obstruction of justice, following a two-day trial criticized by international press groups and human-rights organizations as a sham. The two journalists were arrested on June 4 in the country's northeast, where they were reporting on an insurgency by ethnic Hmong guerrillas. A Hmong-American interpreter was also freed, but two Laotian guides remained in prison. Brutal Youth JAPAN A 12-year-old boy admitted murdering 4-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/13/2003 | See Source »

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