It"s Not about the Truth

It"s Not about the Truth by Don Yaeger Download PDF EPUB FB2

Powerful book on the cost often coming with the truth. There is a daily war of good against evil - if you are not fighting evil - by default you are on the dark side. This book was a intense illustration of arrogance of power in a community and Duke University/5(72).

"It's Not about the Truth" keeps the reader engaged and emotionally involved. Anger and frustration come through in every chapter.

While the topics aren't new, it is a reminder that weasels exist despite the level of education or legal title. And heroes are formed by what they do, not by their social status or age/5(69). It's Not About the Truth is one of the few books out there that can provide even more insight into the case, and I eagerly read it to learn more.

Something to note: this book is a I decided to pick up this book after watching ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary, Fantastic Lies, which provided a deeper look into the events surrounding the Duke Lacrosse /5.

Pressler, who has not done an interview since the saga began, has handed his private diary from those three weeks to New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger, exposing vivid details, including the day Pressler was fired, when the coach asked Athletic Director Joe Alleva why the school "wasn't willing to wait for the truth" to come out.

"It Released on: J   Book Review: “It’s Not About The Truth” Chris Lawrence Sunday, J 6 comments. NPR coverage of It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives it Shattered by Don Yaeger and Mike Pressler. Author: Mike Pressler. “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”.

Three ministers, an Irish Priest, a Southern Baptist, and a Rabbi, would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop. One day, the comment was made that preaching to people isn't really that hard but that preaching to a bear would be a realone thing led to another, and they decided to do a seven-day experiment.

Wikipedia's core sourcing policy, Wikipedia:Verifiability, previously defined the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia as "verifiability, not truth". "Verifiability" was used in this context to mean that material added to Wikipedia must have been published previously by a reliable s may not add their own views to articles simply because they believe them to be correct, and may not.

What made the experience of listening to It's Not About the Truth the most enjoyable. Compelling book. Every law student and lawyer, as well as every young person going to college, should be required to read/listen to this book. What happened to Coach Pressler and the Duke Lacrosse players was a travesty and a witch hunt.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius. “But I saw a giant almost stomp a car into nothing!” Really. Or was what we saw perspective, not truth. What does that mean. The quote urges us to consider that what others say is their opinion, not fact.

It may be a. That is why one of the unproven rumors about “” — as explored in Dorian Lynskey’s “The Ministry of Truth,” a respectful and intelligent “biography” of a novel — is that the Author: Scott Bradfield.

But the film’s first sin is right in its name. It takes its title from the N egro Travelers' Green Book, and yet gives this important piece of American history little screen time or analysis.

Why Trump Lies It’s not just to hide the truth. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. It is deprived not Author: Brooke Gladstone.

The press prints the news but not the truth. It reports in detail the competing propaganda of the conflicting interests but largely neglects the substance of the issue in conflict. A recent. On reflection, it seems to me that the speech’s take on “truth” would’ve been improved not by eliminating any notion of speaking “your truth,” which has its place, but by phrasing that.

In the book, after warning her dad to "STOP READING NOW," Andi dished on their first time hooking up. "As he opened his mouth to speak, I was. Granted, reality is not so lofty as truth, but it’s certainly one of its foot soldiers.

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But the. True for you, but not for me? 'Behind this line is fine' is fine, says the relativist. Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

Professor Gary R. Habermas wrote this book for 'Christians who doubt' as well as .With its markedly ironic title, The Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's dystopian novel,is one of the most important agencies of the government.

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