Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalists in the West Bank. After leaving one village last month, Baltimore Sun reporter Robert Ruby was pelted with rocks. To identify themselves as bona fide journalists, some foreign correspondents began ! carrying press cards issued by the Jerusalem-based Arab Journalists Association. "I have to help journalists get the truth and protect them from getting into trouble," says A.J.A. director Radwan Abu-Ayyash...
...editor describes them unabashedly as the "alternative press" of the era. The wished-for kinship is not with some Age of Aquarius tabloid, of course, but with pamphleteers like Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton. The newsletter gurus see themselves as disabusers of Wall Street myth, as missionaries of economic truth. Since readers can lose big money if their guru is wrong, the work is fraught with the peril of being hanged, though only in effigy...
...means to us. There was a time when you could only explain our defense forces in terms of being one small cog in someone else's wheel. We've come to the realization that we will never be able to singlehandedly repulse any determined onslaught on New Zealand. The truth is that the biggest threat to our security is natural disaster. So we have to have a real defense capacity to cope with localized insurrections and to help out in the region when natural disasters strike...
...northeastern part of the Russian Republic. He charged that today's problems could not simply be attributed to past leaders. "We are duty bound to admit that many mistakes and miscalculations have been made in the years of perestroika too." In fact, he wondered if the real truth were being kept from Gorbachev by aides who were "clearly guarding the General Secretary from the severity of the situation...
...scaly truth is that taste changes; and an anthology of writings on Reni at the end of the catalog charts his fall. You see the first puff of feathers detach itself from the wing of the Angelic Limner in 1846, when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters: "A taint and stain, and jarring discord . . . marked sensuality and impurity." In 1895 Romain Rolland downed him: "He was able to deceive two entire centuries . . . Guido's laborious conscientiousness is void of thought and true feeling." Two years later, Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust...