Word: truths
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...commit crimes (but that those over seven can). "There used to be an old expression, 'Give me a child till he's seven, and I'll give you the adult,'" recalls Brian McSweeney, a vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York. There's more than a grain of truth in that maxim...
Some people believe that if Starr lacks clear evidence of obstruction, the decent thing for him to do is stop and file a report; perhaps the decent thing for Clinton to do is tell the truth and then spend a month in a monastery. But decency is a concept that gets more traction in a culture in which shame matters, like Japan, where the CEOs resign when an airplane crashes. America has always been too big, too fractious for shame to work very well--and there are too many places to start over...
...discusses women's rights abuses around the world and questions the adequacy of U.S. foreign policy to eliminate such injustices. To those unschooled in the universe of women's magazines, Glamour may conjure up a pure lipstick-and-trysts image not dissimilar from that of its competitor Cosmopolitan. The truth is, the publications are quite different because Cosmo is the sort of magazine in which the words foreign and policy would never make a joint appearance, save perhaps in a piece on how to pick up sultans of small Arab countries or graying German auto executives...
Whatever her suspicions over these past few months, she did not have any need to hear the whole truth from her husband until the reality of his testifying in front of Starr sank in last week. Anyone who saw her emerge from Marine One last Thursday, after a ceremony for the Americans killed in the embassy bombings in Africa, wondered if some of the agony on her face wasn't for the ordeal ahead. Ever since Chelsea was six, Hillary has protected her daughter by convincing her that some of her father's political opponents would smear him to beat...
...much for crime. How about punishment? "Perhaps the evidence in the end will warrant some lesser sanction than impeachment," wrote the Wall Street Journal. "But to shrink now from truth and judgment in the name of 'healing' is to make us all complicit with Mr. Clinton's behavior." Newsday opined: "The national jury is still out on whether he can be trusted to lead the country...