Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average Dudley representative to get on the council in the first place. It was during that run for chair that I pushed election reform long before it became a hot issue. During the scandal this fall, I held an officer accountable for her abuse of power despite our personal friendship and despite knowing that I would be vilified until my accusations were proven correct...
...fight the lunacy are freighted with historical poignancy. "Mr. M" (Allen Oliver) wants sustained change through education and discipline, but his protege Thami (Donald Swaby) wants direct action, revolutionary action. Isabel (Eliza Gagnon) is afraid that, in the upheaval she knows is necessary for change, Thami will dismiss their friendship as "an old-fashioned idea...
Even as he railed against gays as "sexual deviants," Hoover apparently struggled with his own homosexuality. Summers offers fresh details of Hoover's 40-year friendship with Clyde Tolson, a handsome young agent he plucked out of the rank and file and quickly promoted to assistant director. The pair ate dinner together almost every night and vacationed together every year; Summers contends that Luisa Stuart, a former fashion model, once saw them holding hands in the back seat of a limo. According to Summers, the Mafia claimed to have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs...
...quite an affair--for days everyone filled out order forms during homeroom for red (love), pink (secret admirer) and white (friendship) carnations, and mused over sappy messages to wrap around the (by the time they got to you) withering little flowers...
Certainly not. Valentine's Day celebrates the bonds between human beings, affection for people close to us and people who care about us. For couples, we have proms, weddings, anniversaries, and frankly, any day of the year. But when do we celebrate friendship if not on Valentine...