Word: mottoes
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...Although FBI agents joke, mostly accurately, that the bureau's motto is "yesterday's technology tomorrow," the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, best known for identifying teenager Lee Malvo as a suspect in the Washington sniper case, has recently scored stunning breakthroughs in some old, "cold" homicide cases...
DIED. JOE STRUMMER, 50, punk rock's godfather, born John Mellor, who co-founded the seminal band the Clash, which took punk to adventurous new heights; of a heart attack; in Broomfield, Britain. Unlike fellow punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, whose nihilistic motto was No Future, the Clash, in its Latin-, reggae-and soul-infused songs, including London Calling, White Riot and The Call Up, urged action against social injustice and pretentious poseurs. Though the Clash split up in 1986, Strummer later found new popularity with the band the Mescaleros...
...Less traveled is the northeastern loop, where the nascent tourist industry could take "Ho Chi Minh slept here" as its motto. Cao Bang province near the Chinese border is where the founder of independent Vietnam and his Viet Minh guerrillas hid from the French colonial army in the 1940s. The provincial government has turned the village of Pac Bo, said to be the site of the exact cave where Uncle Ho hid for four long years, into a communist-themed tourist attraction, complete with signs pointing out Karl Marx Mountain and Lenin Stream...
...learned a lot from my professors, to be a very honest person in doing research, following Harvard’s motto of veritas,” he said before the election. “This is something that helped not only shape my personal character but also my style in politics...
That may be why the 24,000 members of the Society for Creative Anachronism are so busy brewing mead, sewing doublets and whacking each other with swords. Their motto? "Forward into the past!" "I think our technology today has taken us further from morality and generous behavior," says Darren Chermack--that is, Sir Tristan. "I find that this lifestyle is a way to touch on something that I want to be as a person--the pursuit of courtesy, chivalry and proper behavior." "There's a heavy anti-industrial streak there," agrees Carrie Crowder, 41, a conservative Republican, mother...