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...least Dr. Wacker has his priorities straight. Wacker, unlike Dershowitz, has taken a sacred professional oath to heal the sick, so he'll be accepting calls and mending the wounds of the ill as a dedicated physician should...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Watching the Super Bowl: A Constitutional Right | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

Earlier in the day, the eight other city councilors begin their two-year terms after taking the oath of office from the city clerk in a formal City Hall ceremony. Six school committee members also took the oath of office at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School later Monday afternoon...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Sullivan Elected Mayor by City Council | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...mayor, who was sworn in and began his term immediately after the vote, is a member of the conservative Independent faction of the council. Sullivan became mayor for the third time in his career--50 years to the day after his late father, Michael, took the oath of office as the council's chairman...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Sullivan Elected Mayor by City Council | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...made opening doors. "I don't collect coins," Edwards said. "I don't race horses. I like to gamble." Volz contended that Edwards lost $2 million in Nevada between 1981 and 1984; Edwards insisted that he had not squandered anything near that amount. "If I wasn't under oath," he said, "I'd tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana: We Hit the Jackpot | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...convicted of attempted bribery in 1982, and is scheduled to start serving a ten-year prison term next month. He acknowledged that he was testifying in hopes of getting the sentence modified. Asked to explain the contradiction be- tween his admission now and his profession of innocence under oath at his trial, Williams had a simple explanation: "I lied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mafia's Murderous Code | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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