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You simply can’t handle the truth

By Katie Finlon | February 24, 2013

I’d like to start with a fable of sorts: Once upon a time, there was a fabulously wealthy emperor who made his servant weavers make him a new robe every so often. The weavers didn’t want to make the emperor a new robe one day, so they decided to tell...