Word: guardian
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FIRST SUPERMAN DIES AND NOW THIS. CURTIS Sliwa, founder and leader of the crime-fighting, beret-wearing volunteer group known as the Guardian Angels, says six of the group's early exploits were just publicity stunts. The hoaxes, which Sliwa says ended in 1980, ranged from a kidnapping Sliwa blamed on cops to a story about a wallet returned to an elderly mugging victim. The Angels have long been controversial, and some press reports allege Sliwa has yet to own up to all such misdeeds. Still, Sliwa says his honor is intact: "My reputation in New York was almost mythically...
...partners but a people who could be used to send gold and other valuables back to the Spanish treasury. This is why he immediately put the native populations to work. Columbus and his men mistreated the native population to the point that the Spanish government had to appoint a guardian of the Indians, a priest named Bartolome de las Casas...
Concerning one discipline case, I almost blundered when talking to the young man's guardian by calling her his mother. The woman was his grandmother. If she was older than 50, it wasn't by much...
While the public relations effort to mold Hillary into a traditional my- heart-belongs-to-hubby First Lady means that campaign insiders are reluctant to publicly acknowledge her substantive role, her imprint on the staff shake-up seems clear. With Hillary as the principal guardian of the candidate's body and mind, it is telling that just before the convention she propelled the couple's longtime friend Susan Thomases -- a sometimes confrontational New York City lawyer -- into the powerful slot of head scheduler. In that role Thomases serves Hillary's agenda to make sure Clinton's tendency to please everyone...
...dilemma we cannot solve, for the legislature, which is the representative of public opinion, to search the national conscience and discover what sort of compromise Americans have been able to reach in their private consciences. Such an empirical approach would only compromise the court's status as the guardian of principles untouched by politics, but it is the only feasible approach...