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Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

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Flora Lewis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1918
Born: April 25
Died: 2002
Died: May 26
Journalist
LA
California
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Awesome
Society
Sooner
Truth
Journalism
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World
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Hardest
Penalty
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