Word: truth
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...other words, I had no choice. All right. That story isn't exactly true, either (although my roommate is a Cowboys fan). The truth is that by last September, my mind had meshed with the Harvard mentality...
...ALIE," Mark twain once observed, "can travel half way around the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on." At last, the truth about how the Harvard admissions office treats minority groups, athletes and children of alumni is catching up with Harvard's dissembling and deception...
...very clear to us that Fitzsimmons and his colleagues need to come clean. If there is any truth to Fitzsimmons' statement at all, it is because some students who happen to be Asian-American receive tips because they fall into a genuine "favored group"--recruited athletes, legacies and "blue-collar/non-college" backgrounds. Whether affirmative action tips are appropriate for Asian-American applicants or not, Harvard has been irresponsible in deceiving the Asian-American community about the true nature of its admissions process. Harvard should issue a thorough and comprehensive report on its use of affirmative action in admissions, including...
...wing of the women's movement or the women's wing of the gay movement?" asks Torie Osborn, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center in Los Angeles. In truth, lesbians have often been made to feel unwelcome as either. Within the gay movement, men have stressed sexual freedom and increased funding to fight AIDS. When lesbians raise such issues as the pay disparity between men and women -- which hits lesbian couples doubly hard but, paradoxically, can benefit gay male couples -- they are often dismissed as irrelevant. In some corners of the women's movement, lesbians...
...notoriously tough talk. One sober supporter who works for Greenpeace even linked his support to Silber's environmental policy, which the candidate refused to discuss. When asked what this policy might be, the supporter said he "hadn't realy heard...but he trusted Silber to speak the truth...