Word: true
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to students who attended the election meeting, this assertion is simply not true. "The most important issue was the view of PBHA and politics," said PBHA steering committee member Charles E. Reece '92. "I think Rosa was able to make some forceful points about PBHA taking stands on certain issues...
Financial experts are beginning to recognize that Washington will be unable to control drug money unless the U.S. compels offshore financial institutions to make their books "transparent" enough to show the true owners of the money. In the end, the Colombian drug cartels are about to force the world to re-examine the international financial system that has developed haphazardly over the 60 years since the Swiss first popularized secret banking. Countries may not yet be willing to make their banking transactions fully "transparent," but some light must be shed on everyone's books. Says Kerry: "It will take significant...
...conscience-pricked but ultimately expedient movie executive depicted in Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. Gould is called on the netherworld carpet for seduction and abandonment of a woman who, when summoned to testify, proves insufferable even to the great adversary. Mamet may mistrust all women -- his essay "True Stories of Bitches" featured his mother, sister and wife -- but this shrew is a giddyingly specific blend of utter unreason and serene self- righteousness. Still, her sins pointedly do not excuse Bobby's. Mamet may josh about the devil but plainly believes in evil -- and finds it entrenched in the heart...
...observers say he inspired the changes under way in Eastern Europe. Some even say he encouraged them. Most ignore that it was Western ideals, combined with the failure of Communist ideals he still defends and opposition to Soviet domination he represents, which brought millions into the streets. It is true that he could have repressed the demonstrations, but it might not have worked and would have inevitably derailed his brilliant diplomatic blitzkrieg aimed at psychologically disarming the West. Instead, he is now getting credit for developments he could not contain...
...throw her to the people, and they will come in as the great saviors of the republic." The prediction was made by the President's husband Benigno Aquino Jr. shortly before he was assassinated in August 1983. And though he was talking about Imelda Marcos, his scenario was coming true last week for his coup-plagued widow...