Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simpson's acquittal from the charge of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman actually knocked some sense into the man. Or maybe it was the harsh verdict of his civil trial, which ordered Simpson to pay over $33.5 million in damages. But in truth, Simpson probably just didn't want to have another dead woman on his hands...
...oddly hesitant to call himself a filmmaker is Pixar's chairman and CEO, Steve Jobs. With Apple consuming so much time these days, he is rarely at the studio--which is just fine by employees, who both fear and respect him. The truth is that without Jobs, who bought the company from director George Lucas in 1986 and now owns nearly 65%, Pixar would simply not exist. He is credited with wangling an extraordinary fifty-fifty profit-sharing deal with Disney in 1997 for five pictures. "It's his vision. He's the real deal," says Thomas Schumacher, president...
While the world might take some comfort in attributing Kaczynski's deeds to illness rather than ill will, he is actively opposed to lending such comfort. He has written a book, Truth Versus Lies (to be published by Context Books in New York City), its chief aim is to assert his sanity. The book does not address the Unabomber crimes (nor does Kaczynski in person, for he is seeking a retrial and doesn't wish to damage his slim chances), but it is the most thorough accounting of his life to date...
...brother's betrayal. By arguing that Ted should not be sentenced to death on account of mental illness, David committed a dual sin: labeling Ted crazy and dooming him to an utterly unnatural existence. "He knows very well that imprisonment is to me an unspeakable humiliation," Ted writes in Truth Versus Lies, "and that I would unhesitatingly choose death over incarceration...
...whose only purpose is the desecration, rather than the well-intentioned artistic presentation, of an alternative world view. After all, when government funds all manner of artistic visions equally and then steps back as they compete in the marketplace of ideas, it is merit that determines whatever establishment of truth ensues...