Word: tells
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...elites who run an obsessively secular society. For some reason, the specific names of the anti-religious, liberal bogeymen of the political world never get mentioned. Perhaps the fact that there are so many of them obviates the need to identify specific individuals. But we may rest assured, they tell us, that there exists a wide variety of such specters...
Thanks to Bill Clinton's thinking with his--how can I say this politely--body instead of his head, America is becoming the laughing stock of Europe. People there see a government too divided to govern and too obsessed with its image to tell the truth. They see a people too fascinated by the prurient sexual details to focus on the world's economic crisis or the new era of European unification marked by the debut of the euro. In the face of such disarray, many Europeans are beginning to turn away from the country they once respected...
...honorable thing. He did not go on national television and wag his finger at the British people. He did not craft a cover-up, if indeed he needed one. He did not ask his friends and political allies to lie for him. Instead he appeared red-eyed to tell the nation he had worked for years "to demonstrate that the standards of government and behavior in public life were going to be restored permanently." He admitted he had "fallen below those high standards" and had "to do something radical to restore people's faith in this Government...
...Confederate battle flag in Mississippi at which CCC members handed out Confederate flags, white supremacist Richard Barrett said that the Confederate flag 'signifies the real American way of life as it was before James Meredith and Earl Warren, and as it can and will be again.'" He does not tell the reader that Barrett is not and never has been a member of the CofCC or that Barrett was not present at the only demonstration in support of the Confederate flag that the CofCC has helped organize in Mississippi. I do not know whether CofCC members may have been present...
WASHINGTON: It's certainly a good year to run as the integrity candidate. John McCain earned that title from principled (and appealingly quixotic) stands in the Senate on tobacco and campaign finance reform. And as TIME congressional correspondent James Carney puts it, "he's got a story to tell" -- his heroic five years as a POW in Vietnam. "The Clinton scandal has the public more cynical than ever about politicians," says Carney. "And there's no one in Washington who doesn't respect McCain's character...