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President Bush took an oath - as he said at his press conference last week - to "protect and defend the Constitution" of the United States. It's good that the Constitution is in the forefront of his mind. It should stay there. It should be engraved on his shaving mirror. It should be embroidered on Attorney General John Ashcroft's bath towels...
Departing President Sujean S. Lee ’03 administered the formal oath of office to a smiling Chopra, who was greeted with enthusiastic applause...
Romney, who succeeds Jane M. Swift, continues more than a decade of Republican control over the Corner Office in a State House otherwise overflowing with Democrats. In fact it was two Democrats, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who administered the oath of office to Romney and Lt. Governor Kerry Murphy Healy ’82 before a backdrop of other state-wide elected officials, also all Democrats...
...imagined when I watched Kim on a day few Koreans thought would ever come: his inauguration on Feb. 25, 1998. Political rivals, diplomats, even pop stars were in attendance as he swore the oath of office under a clear blue winter sky on the steps of the National Assembly. The mood wasn't festive?South Korea was in the throes of the Asian financial crisis (appropriately, the inaugural music included Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Water). But it was a soaring, hopeful moment for the nation, the first peaceful transfer of power to an opposition party in half...
...earth and stars in the sky. They will spend 400 years as slaves but ultimately possess the land from the Nile to the Euphrates. The pact is sealed in a mysterious ceremony in a dream, during which the Lord, appearing as a smoking torch, puts himself formally under oath. He requires a different acknowledgment from Abraham: he must inscribe a sign of the Covenant on his body, initiating the Jewish and Muslim customs of circumcision. He is now committed, God notes later, to "keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and justice...