Word: legacyism
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I ask Carppenter if he feels a greater responsibility now, as captain, to perpetyate the legacy of the "Magnificent Seven." He agrees emphatically, and says he tires very hard to ensure that the team members live up to the high standards set by their predecessors.
The younger Ames' interest in spycatching may have been stoked by his father, a pipe-smoking member of the CIA counterintelligence staff created and run by the monomaniacal mole hunter James Jesus Angleton. But Carleton had an undistinguished career tracking communist parties and front groups. After he retired from the...
The book lends insight into what has changed--and what hasn't--at one of Harvard's all-male final clubs. Prep school background, region and legacy status do not appear to be the sole determinants of membership they may once have been, but the book shows that they remain...
Neglect of the homeless was one Reagan-Bush legacy Bill Clinton angrily promised to change. Last spring the President ordered three members of his Cabinet to study the problem and propose bold solutions. Last week they did, in a private report to the White House that concluded that the nation...
In fact, his legacy is a Navy still straining to accommodate women, homosexuals and members of racial minorities. At the same time, the Navy's reputation has been battered by the investigations into Tailhook and cheating by midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Some naval officers and military experts...