Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watched as Harvard honored President Nelson Mandela and the new democratic regime elected by all the people of South Africa. Our joy is for the South African people who have removed their oppressors from power, dismantled apartheid and begun rebuilding their country without violence in the spirit of truth and reconciliation...
...mysteries of science and the magical stories of history, and I could have explained to him that in order to get a job in town and escape the third-world living conditions of the community he would need to know how to read and do basic math. But the truth was John didn't want to work in town. He never wanted to leave the community of Atitjere, and he was happy enough with the legends that his grandmother told him and the wondrous science of his cousin, the witchdoctor...
...arrived last Thursday at the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Hill, site of the solemn Watergate impeachment hearings of 24 years ago, wearing a bright green baseball cap and trailing a cameraman. He was there to collect footage for his new cable-TV show, appropriately titled The Awful Truth. But he was having trouble mocking the independent counsel and the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton. Why? Because, explained a dejected-looking Moore as he slumped against a wall outside the committee hearing room, "it's difficult to parody something that's already self-parody...
...floor, the "dancers" evince the truth of her statement, as a group of three men start moving around one another, switching between sitting, standing and kneeling positions while always maintaining contact with at least one part of the other two's bodies...
...scheduled a "perjury day" late next week -- when everyone from military officials to federal judges will appear to tell us what a horrible crime lying before the court is. Expect some real emotional moments as reformed felons relate stories of the day they told less than the whole truth. "Convicted perjurers may have personal experiences they want to relate," said GOP committee spokeswoman Michelle Morgan. Very interesting, to be sure -- but how useful will it be in this highly partisan environment where most minds have already been made up? The committee doesn't exactly have the luxury of time, either...