Word: loyality
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...office, the Senate voted 90-9 last month in favor of McCain’s ban. But the bill’s fate still depends on negotiations in the Conference Committee of the Senate as well as the House of Representatives. And not only is the House more loyal to the administration, but three of the nine senators who voted against the measure are on the Conference Committee. However, McCain’s absolute ban on torture ought to be adopted by the House and signed by the president if the Congress and administration are to maintain any semblance...
...Supreme Court battle, as did Clarence Thomas in his more understated performance four years later. More recently, during the bloody conservative revolt over the Supreme Court nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers, the real villain turned out to be her chief backer, a President who dared tell his loyal base to just trust him on this...
...Americans charged with maintaining order in this roiling, ruined city in western Iraq, it's too late to make friends. One year ago, the Marines launched an assault to take back Fallujah from insurgents, including some loyal to al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who had overrun the city and used it as a base for spreading mayhem throughout Iraq. A week of house-by-house fighting left hundreds of insurgents dead--and saddled U.S. forces and the Iraqi government with the task of rebuilding a battered city and persuading 210,000 uneasy locals to return home. Some military...
...election day,” we’re seeing a more complex, more mature West Wing, but one with no clear narrative resolution in sight. Whether or not “The West Wing” returns for an eighth season, the show’s loyal viewers have invested too much in the political future of the faux-United States for it to be left dangling like a proverbial hanging chad. That said, I still rejoice in the restoration of narrative tension, and this fact alone makes Season 7 worth watching. On the cusp of a mud-slinging...
Speaking just as a Harvard parent and a loyal Harvard alumnus, I think both the editorial (“In Safe Hands”) and the dissenting opinion (“Stop Matching Donations”) of Oct. 18 fail to identify the main reason why it is inappropriate for Harvard to donate to charities providing relief to the victims of natural disasters. Harvard really has no money of its own. It is merely the trustee for money given or paid to it for education and research, and funds resulting from reinvestment of such gifts and payments—funds...