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Flat White

You can’t handle ‘the truth’

5 August 2023

5:00 AM

5 August 2023

5:00 AM

There’s a wonderful scene in the movie A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson loses his cool and exclaims: ‘You can’t handle the truth!’ Everyone who has seen this film remembers that dramatic courtroom segment when a young and relatively inexperienced lawyer played by Tom Cruise verbally challenges a high-ranking US Army veteran played by Jack Nicholson.

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