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...participating in a noisy, Gingrichite call for tax cuts during the 1992 campaign. "You think W. doesn't remember Trent knifing the old man during the Clinton campaign?" a Gingrichite reminded me as Lott went down. "It's Bush-family omerta," he added, referring to the Mafia code of honor...
...Loyalty is considered a paramount, honor-among-thieves virtue by political practitioners in both parties. It certainly trumps honesty or creativity. During the Clinton impeachment imbroglio, the Democratic consultant-entertainer James Carville wrote an entire book, titled Stickin', celebrating those who stuck with the boss. But loyalty was a one-way street in the House of Clinton, a royal court where the King and Queen blithely discarded unwanted retainers like used Kleenex. Even Carville's merry band of consultants was tossed after the 1994 congressional-election debacle. As a result, several of those discarded, like George Stephanopoulos, Robert Reich...
...tricky semantics to stay in power. Countries cannot rewrite their past, and, therefore, wishing for “better luck next time” to cultural heritage or history is impossible. But America, and the world as a whole, must indeed pressure leaders like López Obrador to honor the institutions it took much blood to uphold...
...Suzie and Katie] are proving to our opponents that they’ve got to honor everybody,” Weiss said, referring to last Friday’s match at Dartmouth in which Turley-Molony exploded for 18 kills after the Big Green tried to triple-block Trimble...
...Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Svetlana Boym, and Lecturer on Anthropology Carole K. Hooven. Both Boym and Mansfield declined to comment (disillusioned modesty perhaps?), but Hooven, while expressing disappointment over her early elimination, also told FM over e-mail that, “It was an honor to be included with such a distinguished group.” Conspicuously missing from the lineup was student favorite Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language Leland de la Durantaye, whom the second IvyGate editor described as looking “very much like a young tailor, very...