Word: forthrightness
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...drill that politicians have usually been able to get away with on Social Security. But Obama and Edwards aren't going along this time. "We're not really picking a fight about Social Security," says Obama strategist David Axelrod. "We're picking a fight about candor. [Obama] has been forthright about this, and Senator Clinton hasn...
...answers. "I was sitting next to him and I could almost feel him stiffen in his chair and then he came back with the strongest response I have ever heard a Senator deliver to a Cabinet member," Leahy recalled. "We have to evaluate whether you are really being forthright," Specter told Gonzales, adding that Gonzales' version of his role in the firings was "significantly if not totally at variance with the facts...
...balmy Sunday recently found Yuan Weijing and her two-year-old daughter in the apartment he has hardly left since arriving in Beijing on July 6. Yuan, 30, a forthright homemaker from the coastal province of Shandong, won't venture out for fear of being kidnapped. As paranoid as that might sound, in Yuan's case it is a well-founded concern. Her husband, Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and activist, was himself kidnapped by policemen from his native Shandong province when he visited Beijing in June of 2005. Chen, who has been blind since birth, is now serving a four...
...twin gifts of self-criticism and resilience; she can be knocked down, but never counts herself out. Among her relatives are some whose resistance to the Peacock Throne had led to their confinement and torture. When the clerics take over, Marji shows her defiance in ways both adolescent and forthright. She'll buy an Iron Maiden CD on the black market, and in school she tells her black-scarved teacher, "We've gone from 3,000 [political] prisoners under the Shah to 300,000 under you." The film tracks Marjane's growing pains (shown literally, with body parts expanding...
...this gamble delayed. But Rudy's tongue-tied attempt to nuance his views in the first Republican candidates' debate last week brought the issue to a head. Giuliani is said to believe that his straight talk on a controversial issue will underline his reputation as a forthright leader. After all, the religious conservatives have never been comfortable with the thrice-married, gay-tolerant former mayor of New York City. In that respect, he is calculating he had a lot to gain from a display of backbone and relatively little to lose...