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...Blacks have been the world's outstanding team. In the years between Cups, they routinely trounce everyone. Yet that first Cup of '87 is the only one they've won. This makes them the Sergei Bubka of rugby - and don't they hate it. "The truth is, we do tend to fall over and we're sick of it," says All Black great Frank Bunce on the eve of the sixth World Cup, which begins on Sept. 7 and climaxes at Paris's Stade de France on Oct. 20. "But this time we're ready to claim what we think...
...primacy of truth, or verifiable fact, has taken a beating lately in mass culture; hardly anyone bothers with the distinction between info and tainment. "Reality shows" are as scripted as any World Wrestling Federation slamdown. The "Alien Autopsy" TV documentary of the mid-?90s was a hoax; so was the Internet's "lonelygirl15." Art Bell, on the overnight radio show Coast to Coast A.M., lavished air time on hundreds of antichrists and alien abductees, and 10 million listeners tuned in to these ghost stories in the dark...
...York Times last week, "all of our children will have grown up in a world in which media like these are mutable and changeable and people prank each other, and it will seem less important." By "it" Godwin means facts - what we used to know as the truth...
...asks too much of us - and that the principal right in a democracy is the right to be left alone - but most everyone else bemoans the fact that only about half of us vote and don't do much more than send in our returns on April 15. The truth is, even the archetype of the model citizen is mostly a myth. Except for times of war and the colonial days, we haven't been all that energetic about keeping the Republic...
Through it all, Maponya was always careful to stay on the right side of the law, even if it meant fudging the truth. Arrested on suspicion of funding ANC student fighters, a charge of which he now admits he was guilty, he escaped a sentence by claiming he made payments under duress. But Maponya developed a taste for provocation and pushing the system to its limits. He bought a home in an affluent Johannesburg suburb when he was meant to be confined to the townships. At the Jockey Club, he dressed his (white) jockeys in black, gold and green...