Word: mottoes
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Semper fidelis, the United States Marines' motto, commands members of the élite corps to be ever faithful. Former Marine Major Scott Ritter retains the military bearing and cropped haircut of his 12 years in the service. But he has lost faith in his government's policy toward Iraq, where he was the top inspector for UNSCOM, the United Nations weapons inspection team. He quit that post in 1998, complaining that the Clinton Administration was letting Saddam Hussein off too easily. No one would levy the same charge against the current White House, but Ritter is now even more critical...
...hostel has free gear for fishing and clam digging. Its motto is "The view...
...Jersey area, offers Greasy Kid Stuff, with the husband-and-wife team Hova Najarian and Belinda Miller as hosts. The show, which airs on Saturday mornings, is directed at children ages 6 to 11 and features an eclectic mix of music that doesn't condescend to kids (its unofficial motto: No Raffi Ever). The Greasy playlist roams from rockabilly to lullabies, from the funky rock group Yo La Tengo to classic Elvis. "We felt like the kid stuff out there was pretty bland. There was no sense of the alternative," says Miller. "It's definitely a little nutty, a little...
...homosexuality. (He is now out and heads an organization for gay Christians.) When White was 11, he found a tape of his parents discussing his father's sexuality with psychologists and asked his father about it. "He was such a sneaky little kid," Mel remembers. "We always had a motto in the family: we wouldn't answer questions that weren't asked, but we would always answer honestly questions that were...
...Knowles on its scientific advisory board, tried to name itself “Veritas” when it was founded in 1989. Knowles, however, interceded and convinced the company of the “sensitivity, the horror, the absolute unacceptability” of appropriating the University’s motto. (The story of Vertex and its charismatic CEO Joshua Boger, as told in Barry Werth’s book The Billion Dollar Molecule, illustrates the special problems of making money in the biotech world.) In many other universities, however, the wholesale commercialization of the life sciences has been...