Word: truths
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...pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic who attended with a friend but wouldn't go through the baptism. "They just told us about the good stuff." -->
MOVIES: GRACE OF MY HEART To 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. In Allison Anders" Grace of My Heart, there's little doubt that the tale of Denise Waverly (Ileana Douglas), who in the early '60s marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes...
...student-council presidency). In 1960, at 12, he canvassed his apartment building for John Kennedy and gave street-corner speeches extolling the Democrat. The next year, at elite Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Morris joined the debate club, displaying a talent for arguing any side of any issue ("Truth is that which cannot be proved false," he said) and teaming up with a group of budding pols that included future Congressman Jerrold Nadler and state assemblyman Richard Gottfried. "Dick was always the leader," says Gottfried, "the most creative thinker, the most energetic worker, the one on the phone...
...truth, say scholars, is that it won't make much difference in the end. The pressures on traditional African ceremonies are inexorable. Many ethnologists believe these changes are, in fact, part of the natural life cycle of such rituals. "African traditions are not vanishing," says Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History. "They are changing. Even ceremonies that have been performed for hundreds of years have changed throughout the centuries as people adapt to new stimuli and new ideas." Still, there is a poignancy in Beckwith and Fisher's images, a sense that we are seeing some...
...their criticism of the media's coverage of Jewell and aired a national poll indicating that only 19% of those asked thought Jewell was guilty. Said Jewell lawyer G. Watson Bryant Jr. to TIME:"These jerks [the federal authorities] need to get up off their butts and tell the truth...