In fact, as a condition of the settlement, News Corp. will not be required to acknowledge the truth of any of the claims against it.

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In another scholarly study, Ruth Harris, an Oxford University historian, shows how the battle to establish his innocence was never, as myth would have it, a neat tale pitting the forces of truth and justice against paranoid military authority and national honour.

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Carey seemed to think that at least some of that truth will acquit the company of the more egregious charges against it, such as the thinly-sourced claim that reporters may have hacked the voicemail in-boxes of Sept. 11 victims.

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You know one of the arguments against term limits you know I put term limits on myself when I went to the United States Senate and I still think it's a pretty good idea to tell you the truth but one of the arguments against that is look at all the expertise you'd lose if you had term limits.

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Under the circumstances, is it not appropriate to infer that to tell the truth would be to confirm all of the questionable charges against him?

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