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...Elliott describes the entire episode in the citation he wrote. Elliott later told the Boston Globe he had made a terrible mistake in signing the affidavit. Then he signed a new affidavit standing behind the first. When newspapers questioned Kerry's account in 1996, Elliott went to Boston to uphold it. The commander of one of the other two boats, Chicago Tribune editor William Rood, corroborated Kerry's story last week...
...apart. His base is restless over government spending and Iraq, and this is a means to placate and energize it. If that means turning a tiny minority into a lethal threat to civilization, so be it. If that minority's sole crime is to seek to live in fidelity, uphold the family, support responsibility, then that also is beside the point. In this battle, the President has shown his true colors. He is a divider, not a uniter...
...Bush’s physical absence itself that was so troublesome, but rather the general complacency and indifference that his neglect, in a way, epitomized. Many of the scholars actually disapproved of Bush’s presidency; but each, regardless of political persuasion, also expected him to uphold the sacred traditions that had been respected by every president since the program’s conception. Though I reasoned flippantly that scratching the ears of Bush’s dog Barney, whom we happened to encounter on our White House tour, was really just as exciting as shaking the hand...
...delayed the film's distribution in the Philippines for 20 days pending a further hearing, thus scotching its scheduled premiere on July 7. Interviewed by TIME in Manila, Marcos calls it a "vicious" film, lamenting: "It's so ugly, and I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly." She adds: "The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole...
...York Times with Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe ’62. Tribe also authored a friend-of-the-court brief—co-signed by seven other universities—trumpeting Harvard’s policy in urging the Court to uphold the University of Michigan’s policy...