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Cardona knew it was a terrible idea. Shortly before he left Fort Bragg, N.C., for the Middle East, he told a close friend and family members that he was returning against his wishes but felt dutybound to accept the deployment. The friend said Cardona described trying to attach another soldier's name tags to his uniform in hopes of concealing his identity from Iraqis but was told by a superior to desist. According to this friend, Cardona said he had told at least one of his superiors that he feared for his safety in Iraq. Cardona's name...
When they retired and their kids left home, the couple, always active volunteers, felt dutybound to do even more. "Coming to the U.S. and [having the chance] to capitalize on so many opportunities, we always had the feeling that we'd been given so much blessing, and there was only one reason why--to share with the less fortunate," says Mervyn...
...often felt obligated to present these diverse views. On the campus paper there, I edited feature stories and had little desire to influence other sections of the paper. But when some minority students complained about the lack of diversity in our coverage and on our staff, I felt dutybound to press other editors to cover minorities more and explore ways to recruit more black students. When students debated whether Yale should have a day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I saw this as a largely symbolic issue that I wasn't passionately interested in. But eventually I found...
...alcoholic beverages into restaurants.) To straighten out the New York mess, legislative wheels are now in motion for passage of an amendment allowing brown bagging with the consent of restaurant owners. Officials at the SLA are taking the position that they were only doing their job. "We're dutybound to go after [violations]," said one spokesman. "If people don't like the law, let them change...
Bleats of unchecked egoism are now so commonplace that self-glorification may be well on the way to becoming standard American style. Yet such an epidemic of flagrant braggadocio would have scandalized the country not long ago. Most Americans have always felt, as many still feel, dutybound to sniff at the ostentatious chest thumper and look down on all public boasting. Brazen self-admiration has never been considered criminal, nor necessarily degenerate, but it has always been judged tacky - poor form, at best. Good form has always required reticence about one's virtues. To think well of oneself...