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...liberal guests he invited to be on his Washington radio show, North snapped, "You know, Bryant, I don't think anybody ought to take themselves as seriously as you do every morning. I don't take myself that seriously." Shot back Gumbel: "Oh, clearly not. Perhaps the oath should have been taken a little more seriously before lying to the government too." After the spat, Gumbel phoned in to North's show and said that while he didn't regret the disagreement, he should have treated his guest more courteously. Back to you, Katie...
...Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Brigitte Mabandla. For the second time in a matter of weeks, she will be replacing Mandela's estranged wife Winnie, who was fired from the job, won it back and then was sacked for good. After the oath is administered, the President tells Mabandla with a smile, "I congratulate you again. I hope that this time there are no bumps in the course of your duties...
...House-passed welfare bill ("too weak on work and too tough on children") and to vow to fight for the confirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General. Over the weekend the President had a reminder of some older problems: he and Mrs. Clinton were interviewed under oath by Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr...
...House ethics committee agreed to investigate whether Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) violated his oath of secrecy by identifying aCIA sourceconnected with thedeath of an American citizen in Guatemala. Torricelli, whom House Speaker Newt Gingrich has threatened to expel from the intelligence committee, made no apologies on the House floor today. "I did what I thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House...
Contrary to statements in The Crimson, I have not provided "false testimony" to the Cambridge Rent Control Board or any of its agents. In fact, I have never even been asked to make a statement before any such board--"under oath" or otherwise...