Word: truths
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...whole proposition in one sentence. I believe in the dignity of the individual, in government by law, in respect for the truth and in a good God; those beliefs are worth my life, and more; they are not shared by Adolf Hitler," Bundy wrote in a 1940 anthology, Zero Hour...
Liberal education is learning to see truth and goodness on one's own, without the comfort of consensus or the smugness of solidarity. This is the hardest thing for a human being to achieve, but also the most brilliant achievement. The liberal education is harder than an education in any particular task, whether making money, curing the sick, helping the underprivileged, entertaining the bored, advancing science, winning arguments, reporting the news, deconstructing texts, grinding out punditry or decrying oppression. The liberal education goes beyond making one good at something or for something. It makes one good and wise without qualification...
...truth, the Administration had its fingers crossed that its admittedly off-kilter response would suffice. On Wednesday Clinton proclaimed that "our mission has been achieved," while avoiding defining either the mission or the achievement. Officials warned that further reckless acts from Saddam would provoke more reprisals, but the main purpose had been accomplished: "to make Saddam pay a price" for every "act of violence and aggression...
After months of denying the obvious, the Kremlin finally came clean last week. Well, partly clean. Declaring his commitment to a "society of truth," but speaking in a painfully slow, sometimes slurred voice, Boris Yeltsin told an interviewer on prime-time TV that he would be having heart surgery at the end of the month. The news was greeted calmly in Moscow and with quiet relief by Western diplomats, who have long said they would like to see either a healthy President or a new one. Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and National Security Adviser Alexander Lebed, the two most prominent...
...watch a movie set in recent decades is to run a reality check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the filmmakers, but hey, we were there. Any fiction movie becomes, in our eyes, a failed documentary...