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This time Ed Rollins swore he was telling the truth. His earlier contention that the Republican Party had doled out $500,000 to suppress the black vote in New Jersey's gubernatorial election had been a political boast, he said last week, concocted as a "head game" with his rival political strategist, James Carville. That was Rollins' explanation last week for earlier remarks that had touched off a furor following Republican Christine Todd Whitman's narrow victory over incumbent Democrat James Florio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, I Made It All Up | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Because truth will prevail. Here's a more promising argument: We should be tolerant because if we suppress controversial or repugnant opinions or experiments in living, we could very well be depriving ourselves of ideas that are truer or better than those opinions and habits we hold now. We should by no means go so far as relativists and skeptics in asserting that there is no truth to be discovered. But we should admit that as individuals, we certainly have no monopoly on the truth and could be wrong in our opinions. We should therefore be open-minded...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: The Arguments for Tolerance | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...sexually abused often suppress memories of the incidents for years and are unaware of the causes of their depression and problems with interaction in the work place, said Carolyn A. Ryder clinical psychologist at the Medical School...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Panel Discusses Victims of Abuse | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...injection of the extract of the kudzu root, a Chinese herb, led the hamsters to "significantly suppress the free-choice ethanol intake" without any negative side effects...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Kudzu Root May Curb Alcoholism | 11/2/1993 | See Source »

...anything can be worse than Liem's actions, it's Jewett's inaction. He has effectively endorsed the house master in his campaign to suppress free speech. His weakness in the face of clear wrongdoing raises the question of whether he is too ineffective to be dean of Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Despotism | 10/1/1993 | See Source »

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