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...immoral and wrong, runs the standard, timeworn answer. But this stricture has never cut as much ice with potential liars as moralists would wish. The vast majority of criminal defendants assert their innocence, no matter what the evidence against them. Watergate was a baroque pageant of major players and spear carriers trying to lie themselves out of jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Political Campaign: Lies, Lies, Lies | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...Supreme Court has just downgraded cross burnings to the level of bonfires and ruled that it's no crime to throw around verbal grenades like "nigger" and "kike." Where are the defenders of decorum and social stability when prime-time demagogues like Howard Stern deride African Americans as "spear chuckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . Or Is It Creative Freedom? | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...sight of a gang of Zulus brandishing traditional weapons is enough to instill terror in the black townships around Johannesburg, where many residents belong to other tribal groups. Local newspapers recently published a photo that shows why. The frame captured a black man in Soweto clasping a spear and plunging it into the back of another black man, who was desperately trying to flee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Arms Control, Zulu-Style | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...Zulu leaders have long maintained that carrying spears is a cultural right. Last week, in a bid to halt political violence, President F.W. de Klerk secured an arms-control agreement with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. Henceforth, the spear will be added to the government's list of dangerous instruments that are banned in areas where unrest occurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Arms Control, Zulu-Style | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...have brought her in to spear the direction of the course of these programs," she said...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Biologist Accepts NYU Post | 4/5/1991 | See Source »

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