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...Even if the country's physicians subscribed to the Hippocratic oath, the ancient moral dictum that guides Western medical workers, they would have to violate it. In China, doctors serve the all-powerful state, and when a professional code of conduct conflicts with the Party line, the latter often holds sway. "Of course it's an ethical problem," says a doctor who participated in Beijing's SARS cover-up. "We want to be honest, but if we don't go along, we can't exist...
...official commissioning took place before the formal ceremony in front of the John Harvard statue with each newly-commissioned officer taking an oath of office and signing a commission in front of an American flag...
During the ceremony, each of the graduates took the military oath of service, administered by Taylor, and posed for photographs with family. In addition, according to military tradition, each graduate received his or her first salute as an officer...
Earlier that same year, Harvard Law School graduate Alger Hiss was sentenced to prison for almost four years after lying under oath about his associations with Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist...
...David Meserve, the city council member who drafted the ordinance, says it was a pre-emptive strike in case the feds, using the Patriot Act as their legal authority, ever ask local police to serve a search warrant or order town record keepers to hand over tax records. "My oath of office is to uphold the Constitution," says Meserve. "The Patriot Act is unconstitutional...