Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scandal expands to include all sorts of wrongdoing or "perceptions" of wrongdoing in a ridiculous attempt by the press to uncover something (read: Whitewater). The more the journalists become wrapped up in the scandal, the more they lose sight of its real importance. Despite self-righteous talk about "truth" and "the people's right to know," concerns about agents, public relations, TV appearances and high society inclusion are what truly motivate the journalists. In the end, poetic justice prevails and the sharks in the media get a taste of their own privacy-invading medicine...
Peninsula is an ideological oddity; a self-contained school of thought that believes that the ultimate truth of the universe is known only to those who think exactly as its members do. Its core beliefs seem to be comprised of a heavy dose of fundamentalist Christianity mixed with supply-side economics, and topped off by a paranoid hostility toward anything different. We gaze in collective wonderment as it recklessly attacks gays, women and anyone less conservative than itself...
...memory has an Administration handled the truth more cynically than has this Administration...
...window the legend PANAMA AND SAVILE ROW SINCE 1921. Legend seems the right word because Harry thinks he is the only person in Panama City, including his wife Louisa, who knows the falsity of his front. There was no Braithwaite and no establishment on Savile Row. Harry is in truth an ex-con who did time for torching his Uncle Benny's London garment warehouse, at his uncle's request, for the insurance. His new life in Panama has been made possible by a wealthy friend of the grateful Benny...
...Maureen Dever-Bumba, a nurse-practitioner and director of the Kutztown Student Health Center in Pennsylvania, the harsh truth about nursing today hit close to home. After her 72-year-old grandfather was admitted to a hospital with terminal cancer, a technician carelessly gave him medicine that caused disorientation. "He was confused and imagined that he saw bugs on people," says Dever-Bumba, who has been in the nursing profession for 18 years. She remarks, "The care was so bad my entire family had to become nurses for my grandfather because no one else was around to help. The public...