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...events of the year in the life of the family, but in reality, it is a long disquisition on how the family wanted the events of the year to unfurl. As such, it is brazen not only in its obvious and legion lies (no one tells the truth in a Christmas newsletter), but it is also in its hubris. For what is hubris if not assuming that your distant relatives and one-time friends care a wit about the fact that you’ve been promoted to assistant district sales manager...
Outright lying remains less common than massaging the truth, but it still happens. A letter might include lines like, "Bill has been promoted, and Johnny made National Honor Society," when a more truthful missive would have read, "Bill got arrested for drunk driving, and Johnny has converted the garage into a meth...
Although the young Rossi had dismissed Stoker’s “Dracula” as mere fiction—“useless as a source of information about the real Dracula”—our historian mulls over the very question of literary truth. Since Rossi believed Vlad the Impaler was actually a vampire, could “a novel...have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality?...
...previous elections. Supermarket shelves in the capital had been emptied last week in anticipation of chaos sparked by a contested election result. Instead, the streets of Caracas were quiet on Monday. The opposition may finally be abandoning the claim that Chavez can stay in power only by cheating. "The truth is that even with a tighter margin we recognize that today they defeated us," Rosales said Sunday night. "But we'll keep fighting...
...Whatever the truth behind Mahmoud's death, it was not an isolated incident but came amid outbreaks of violence in several mixed Sunni-Shi'ite areas of Beirut this week that have left dozens injured and inflamed sectarian tensions. Hundreds of Lebanese troops have deployed in Beirut's trouble spots. But using the Lebanese Army in this way is untenable, warned its commander, General Michel Suleiman. Suleiman says that sectarian violence "drains the army's resources and weakens its neutrality," and warned, "This weakness will make the army unable to control the situation in all areas of Lebanon...