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Throughout the evening, Strossen repeatedly criticized the Communications Decency Act passed by Congress last year, charging officials with abandoning their "oath to uphold the Constitution...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The people of Arkansas deserve a Senator who will continue to uphold the great legacy of David Pryor...I want...this race to focus on the issues that affect everyday Arkansas...
...offend loyal gun owners (and big-time contributors) in order to court a larger audience. And when House Speaker Newt Gingrich got wind of Dole's plan just after breakfast, he was furious. Dole had once promised Gingrich to repeal the ban, and now here he was, promising to uphold it. Gingrich telephoned the campaign and demanded that Dole remove the offending sentence...
...goodness that an undergraduate community dedicated to a rigorous education and a moral responsibility can achieve. We believe in the power of democracy not simply as a balance of group interests but as a mechanism of fostering community. We believe that the council's purpose should be to uphold these beliefs, to fight for student concerns within the present system and to foster a future community which does not treat undergraduates as its Third Estate...
...embarrassment he believed he had brought on the Navy, his institution, his anchor, his family. Mike Boorda, like most of the senior officers I have known in our military services, would have felt himself the steward of his service's honor and concluded that his sacrifice would uphold it. For a man to have placed a higher importance on upholding an unreachable standard of accountability than on his own survival expresses an ethic that, however misguided, ought to be respected...