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...swearing-in ceremony at the old Executive Office Building in Washington, the President called him "an extraordinary public servant" who would have "total support in the difficult job of enforcing and administering our nation's environmental protection laws." Reagan urged him to start "a new chapter." With that mandate, William Ruckelshaus last week became the new administrator of the troubled Environmental Protection Agency. Said Jay Hair, executive vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, the nation's largest nonprofit citizen's conservation group: "Not only is Ruckelshaus the best choice anyone could hope for from this Administration...
...young servant was "mighty pretty," thought Samuel Pepys, and it was not long before his wife "did find me embracing the girl con my hand sub su coats." In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s. There was plenty to confide. Mrs. Pepys made him dismiss the girl. Pepys gave his servant a lofty talk, warning her to "have a care for her honour and to fear God." He then paid her 20 shillings to tell...
...legal ethics. Yet the actions of the lawyer's convention were important and potentially far reaching. In a controversial and unfortunate vote, the 383-member House of Delegates decided to alter the proposed ethical code. Instead, they opted for a formula which casts the lawyer as little but the servant of his client, bound to act in the best interests of that client even if it means disregarding the integrity of the law or the interests of the public...
...business straightaway. She walked among 200 reporters (a fraction of those covering her) who had been invited aboard the comfortably staid Britannia to drink brandy and warm whisky. Mid-mingle, she had one American describe for her Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, in which a servant is cursed for manhandling the disguised English monarch...
...ongoing battle of British royalty vs. the press, Queen Elizabeth II has won a decisive round. After Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch's splashy London tabloid the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) ran the first installment of confessions by a former palace pantry servant, the Queen took the unprecedented step of suing Murdoch's news organization and her onetime employee for damages. In an out-of-court settlement last week, the Sun agreed to pay the $6,000 it would have given the ex-servant and he ponied up his $150 advance, all of which the Queen donated...