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...Words are slippery," warned Historian Henry Adams. The word propaganda has slipped quite a bit. At one time it described any information, true or false, that was spread to promote a cause. But today nearly everyone understands it as referring to distortions of the truth. That did not sway the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It ruled 5 to 3 that the Justice Department could invoke a World War II-era law to label as "political propaganda" three Canadian documentaries on acid rain and nuclear war, including a 1983 Academy Award winner. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens...
...Speyer, where she was known as an ascetic who rose early, wore patched linen clothes and knelt through three Masses a day. In 1934, after the Nazis banned Jews from academic posts, Edith Stein entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne. By 1938, with the Jewish pogroms in full sway, the order sent her to Echt...
...fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs. As a new generation takes over in the kitchen, the general quality and authenticity of the food promises to improve. But for now, some of the best and most rarefied eating is to be found in hotels and restaurants where older chefs hold sway...
...beep when hit by a shot from an opponent's weapon. Both parts will have the red-white-and-blue G.I. Joe logo. Worlds of Wonder, which will produce the set, wants its Lazer toys to start reaching the eight-and-under audience, where G.I. Joe's name holds sway. Hasbro, meanwhile, gets a 4% to 6% cut of the wholesale price...
...Californian. But Clumly hated California, or anyway felt alarmed by it...Clumly's wife was a blind woman with bright glass eyes and small, pinched features and a body as white as his own. Her small shoulders sagged and her neck was long, so that her head seemed to sway above her like a hairy sunflower. He minded the way she filled her teacup one finger over the rim to watch the level, and he minded the way she talked to herself perpetually, going about the house with her lips moving as though she were some kind of old-fashioned...