If adults won't face up to the truth, maybe it's time to bring in the children for new ideas, and for a reminder of what's at stake.

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But as those few claims snowballed into hundreds, the family had to face up to the horrific truth: that the man they were so proud of as a media star and tireless charity fundraiser had a far darker side to his past.

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How many of us are truly up to the task of choosing to face the truth even if it creates conflict?

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The Afghan struggle was in truth a rod to be held up in the face of the Bush administration's quest in Iraq.

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With consummate skill I would then extricate the truth, bring it up to the surface where we both could face it square: You hated your mother!

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