Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something to fend off; it was born of forces of nature--the weather changed in the 1930s, turned Kansas into powder--or forces of history, the war that injured him. He thinks of the U.S. as a constant, a fixed polar star of unchanged and unchanging values, like duty, honor, country, God. And he is proud of being much the same way. The places he knows best and loves most are not in flux; certainly not Russell, Kansas, not Bal Harbour, Florida, or even the U.S. Senate, where spittoons can still be spied...
Fitz-Gerald hopes her position as Jefferson County clerk will give her enough leverage to unseat a six-term incumbent. She says her tenure was marked by strict fiscal responsibility, and she cites her refusal to honor a $37,000 contract two outgoing commissioners had awarded to a lobbyist friend. In Washington she says she will fight for student loans, "vital social programs" and Medicare...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Americans have been frightened by the Contract with America because...it fails to honor important existing obligations. It threatens our elderly, our children and our sick...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "On behalf of my parents, who were immigrants, on behalf of the over 1 million...legal immigrants who served this country in time of war and the two Medal of Honor winners [who were] legal immigrants...I say they do not come here to take, they come to give...
...which could thrive in a difficult medium. While the whole cast was strong, a few were especially worthy of note. Harvard alum Jon Matthews '84 played a slyly naive New York journalist, with a humor and style that is often believable, though sometimes overdone. John Randolph, of Prizzi's Honor fame, brilliantly portrayed an "authentic," folksy political fossil who "holds court" with wry witticisms and hackneyed observations. Finally, Richard Kind of TV's Spin City and Samantha Bennett colorfully reflected the vanity, insecurity and ambition that consume the reporters and their reporting...