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...make a decision whether I am to continue in the office of President until 2006 or not." Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan President, disclosing that she took a second, secret oath of office in 2000 and therefore may extend her six-year term as President...
After taking the oath of office, Sullivan told a packed audience that this council—whose nine members were all re-elected last November—would continue to focus on the issues of education, affordable housing and quality of life...
City Clerk D. Margaret Drury, who presided over the ceremonies, read the credentials of each councillor and administered the oath of office as their families and supporters looked...
...complicity in the ranks. However, the President is being more cautious. Last weekend, 10,000 security personnel, including soldiers brandishing machine guns at key intersections in Islamabad, descended on the capital in preparation for the regional South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference. And last week's oath-taking by Nazim Hussain Siddiqi, the new Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, was held at Musharraf's Rawalpindi residence rather than the grand presidential palace in Islamabad, the customary venue. "That's like having your Chief Justice sworn in at the Pentagon," says Aitzaz Ahsan, an opposition parliamentarian...
...investigating the 9/11 attacks continues to be at odds with the White House over access to key information and witnesses. Two government sources tell TIME that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is arguing over ground rules for her appearance in part because she does not want to testify under oath or, according to one source, in public. While national security advisers are presidential staff and generally don?t have to appear before Congress, the commission argues that its jurisdiction is broader-and it's been requiring fact witnesses in its massive investigation to testify under oath. The exception...