Word: truthful
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...president half of it wanted and the Supreme Court all of it deserved. The slenderest conservative majority of five declared the Florida game over, with a hard Scalia core shouting additional insults at the local referee. And the four liberals mourned that the fight for lost votes and elusive truth was called off cynically, with a few ticks still left on the clock...
...naivete. But the next Christmas "Santa" gave my sister a toy that I remembered seeing before in our house. Either Santa was having an economically trying year and had helped himself to some of our older toys, or my parents had misled me all along. Learning the truth was a disappointment, but even more disturbing was the belittlement and the manipulation that previous "evidences" implied. The world had connived to pull one over on me, and that stung more than the cold transferal of my old toys to my sister. I vowed not to be bamboozled again...
...Winners & Losers feature in the Notebook section called Nader a loser because he did not get 5% of the vote. But even though his Green Party did not get the 5% needed to receive federal funding, he still won because he had the intelligence and courage to tell the truth. Nader and the Greens have taken the crucial step that will eventually turn the tide and save the nation. JAMES M. JEFFREY Talent...
...wistful, urgent conceit that his great poem "Leaves of Grass" might save the Union. It would show Americans that despite their divisions they were one great nation. Montaigne, almost three centuries earlier, worked a variation on the theme. Rising above dogma and abstraction, he would pursue the general human truth by studying himself - and such generalized self-knowledge, the recognition of their human selves, might relieve people of their inclination to kill one another for religious reasons...
...created by Pinochet to deal with national crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth for Pinochet may be that the flap sparked by his arrest is nothing approximating a national crisis. Seizing power again is no longer a plausible option for the military in a post-Cold War world, and the indictment of their former leader is simply a product of democracy...