Word: steadfastness
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...last week Scott's closet door blew wide open in front of a Senate panel probing the legitimacy of the military ban on gays. For Scott, the feeling was bittersweet as Colonel Peck strove before the committee to reconcile his unwavering love for his homosexual son with his steadfast support of the ban. For the millions of viewers watching the televised hearing, the colonel's poignant struggle humanized a search for a compromise solution that has become shrill and riddled with stereotypes...
...fearful peers are careful not to take sides, even anonymously. "It was a bold move on Mike's part," says the currently successful head of a studio, "and a logical move on Jeff's part." "This place," says Anna Perez, who just became CAA's chief spokeswoman after a steadfast four years as Barbara Bush's press secretary, "is beginning to feel just like the White House...
Students who work closely with Dr. Counter are steadfast in defending...
Goldkorn and others attribute this steadfast commitment to Eliot's traditions to their unifying community service projects which foster as sense of "cohesiveness" within the house. "The things that we do rather than who we are define Eliot now," says Co-Master Christine Forsgard, who was a tutor at Eliot in the early 1980s...
...international concern and on whether, at last, Cambodian political leaders can cooperate with goodwill to address the underlying problems of their country. Yasushi Akashi, the personable Japanese who heads UNTAC, points out that UNTAC "cannot force Cambodians to be free." The international community and UNTAC need to be steadfast if Cambodians are finally to have the chance...