Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January most Americans were not sure if Clinton was telling the truth, but two-thirds thought that if he wasn't, they wanted no part of him. By August those numbers were reversed. More than two-thirds now thought he had lied, and, after Clinton confirmed that in his televised confession-of-sorts on the 17th, two-thirds no longer wanted him to quit...
...understand. In the meantime, the two men circle each other, nearer and nearer, meeting by happenstance, then by design. At first it is only Dwight, the perpetrator, who understands what links the three of them. His crime makes him all-knowing, a sort of God. That's the dark truth at the center of Schwartz's story: the guilty see all too clearly, all too starkly, what the innocent can only guess...
...gosh, the man lied about having an extramarital affair. Is this not a common instinct for any guilty person? I dare anyone to show me a politician who does not stretch the truth to get elected. Since when do a man's personal affairs affect how he runs a country? Clinton is doing fine and should be left alone. Americans, you should spend your millions on education, ending poverty and researching cures for AIDS and cancer, not on feeding lawyers and tabloids. ILMAR JAAN KENTS Brantford...
...needs to concentrate on the larger issues and forget the man. As has often been seen, Clinton is a master manipulator, a strategist. He went before the nation with a four-minute travesty of the truth. His speech was sanctimonious. But Americans, one hopes, are astute. They should want the resignation or removal of this man. The missile attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan, if not contrived, were convenient. Americans must be alert to the dangers that arise from indifference. They could be spawning a common Clinton species as an acceptable model for future Presidents. JINI DHANRAJGIR Bombay...
Over the course of his 34-year career, Conyers has distinguished himself mostly as a truculent ideologue. Among his causes have been a guaranteed annual income for the poor and reparations for descendants of slaves. "A fox knows many, many things, while a hedgehog knows only one larger truth," says a House Democrat, paraphrasing the ancient Greek poet Archilochus. "John Conyers has been a hedgehog...