31.   Movies and politics now rely on polling data and focus groups to find audiences and voters rather than a good story or the simple truth.

32.   No politician in either party seems willing to tell the elderly a simple truth.

33.   Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp knew then the simple truth most Americans now recognize.

34.   Simple human truth, uncompromising scholarly standards?

35.   Somewhere in the growing up, Oates not only learned the simple truths of success, but learned not to forget them.

36.   Somehow this simple truth eludes those in the House who are in thrall to the National Rifle Association.

37.   That simple truth explains much about the recent downward path of the stock market.

38.   The second ingredient was an unshakable belief in a few simple truths.

39.   The simple truth behind the struggle for order was that no one had ever done anything quite like it before.

40.   The simple truth is that both Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, brushed off the U.S. effort to end the violence.