Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question is who is responsible," McGuinness said, "If the truth be told, we are all responsible...
...Epps claims he learned about the shutdown on Thursday, Oct. 30 at a meeting around 11 a.m. According to his statement to The Crimson (Nov. 5), he "tried to contact the organizers on Thursday to discuss the change, but could not contact them." This statement is as far from truth as it could be. During that day Epps didn't return calls from organizers. He couldn't even see them where they walked in during his office hours. Later that day, he spoke to one of the main organizers without ever mentioning the change in location...
...teaching, but a clarification of a position which has been held for at least 30 years, and possibly for hundreds of years before that, depending on one's interpretation of Scripture and doctrine. In the same letter, we read, "All in all, it is essential to recall one basic truth. God loves every person as a unique individual. Sexual identity helps to define the unique persons we are...Human beings see the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart." This last sentence quotes the first book of the prophet Samuel (16:7), written at least 2,000 years...
...when the first stories of his sexual exploits began to surface, that Milton Berle's wife arrived in Washington from Hollywood and asked what in the world was going on in the White House. "If all of the women who claim to have slept with Kennedy are telling the truth, he would not have strength enough to lift a teacup, let alone deal with Khrushchev." Women or not, Kennedy dealt pretty well with Khrushchev, and that may be the larger reason why Camelot will not fade away...
Somewhere between these two images lies the truth. But no one should expect to find it in Hersh's embarrassing book, which recycles virtually every accusation ever leveled at Kennedy, adds very little of consequence to what we already know, and presents it all with a heavy-handed sensationalism that the contents of the book fail to justify. From beginning to end Hersh makes dramatic claims ("They have kept their silence--until now"; "Until this book it has not been known..."), only to present either modestly amplified versions of familiar stories or inflammatory disclosures for which he has no adequate...