Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiz bowl team, I discovered that it appealed to my inner nerd. But beyond that, I sensed that under the layer of minutiae I had an immense responsibility. I felt a tremendous power in ensuring, even in the most minor of details, that my magazine printed only the truth...
...importance of my job--the entire second half of the article--had been cut! With the stroke of a pen, I had been transformed from a cheerful, hardworking intern to a bitter, sarcastic employee. And people around the nation had read it, and had taken it for the truth...
...bipartisan commission. A bipartisan commission! The man is a walking bipartisan commission! If that's not enough, he has the nerve to say that "one of the responsibilities of growing older...is being able to tell people something they may not want to hear just because it's the truth." Statements like this are what makes Clinton Clinton. He's pragmatic enough to tell people exactly what they want to hear and yet he has the audacity to assert that he's not saying what he's saying because they want to hear it. Surprise of surprises, the conflicting desires...
...died of violence, disease or starvation under Indonesian rule since 1975, and that the Portuguese government transferred the legal representation of the Timorese people to the independent Republic of East Timor in 1975. No country but Australia has formally recognized the annexation of East Timor by Indonesia. The sad truth is that for the past 20 years, Portugal has been alone in defending the rights of the Timorese people, which have been overlooked by more powerful countries for economic reasons. The decision of the Nobel Committee should be praised, not treated as a controversial issue. CARLO PESCE Genoa, Italy...
...Dole campaign had all but given up on North Carolina, but Dick Armey was still there fighting for the doomed campaign of G.O.P. freshman David Funderburk. "There's no Republican I know who dares tell the truth about the Clinton Administration," he growled to several dozen of the Republican faithful who had gathered for a Funderburk fund raiser at a Durham-area country club. "If we tell the truth, we're considered meanspirited...