Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Verses have ever seen it, much less opened it. Their fury, and the timorousness of government officials fearing violent uproars, has been prompted by one accusation: that the novel contains a blasphemous portrait of the Prophet Muhammad and thus amounts to a terrible insult to Islam. The plain, simple truth is that the novel does nothing of the sort, but only those who consent to read the thing will discover this for themselves...
...truth of the matter is that while much in America is good, much is not. The fact that minorities, inner-city families, the homeless and the poor suffer gross social injustice, and that American foreign policy continues to perpetuate much evil abroad, means that the present order should not be saved...
...everybody's ideal of a committee chairman. He might not like that, but that's the truth," says Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, who was dean of the faculty during Verba's tenure as associate dean...
...would be more thrilling to say that the Crimson men's basketball team won this game with a blazing fast break, a barrage of three-pointers and a storm of thunderous dunks, but the truth is that Harvard defeated Yale with textbook free-throw shooting and old-fashioned hard work...
Today, if truth-in-packaging laws applied to a college education, you'd find Ralph Nader breathing down President Bok's neck. Reading is only a small part of the work students do during these two weeks...