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...motto of the FBI is "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity." How well did William Sessions' all-powerful predecessor, J. Edgar Hoover, uphold these words? Not very, according to a just published biography of the late FBI chief. Anthony Summers' Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover is sure to disturb the old crime fighter's final rest...
When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land on horse-back and across the oceans by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world...
Williams said she expects to uphold current union goals and policies in the coming term. The union's main project now is contract negotiations with the University...
Camille Paglia rightly pointed out that you, as an "artist," have no responsibility to uphold society's values, but I really doubt you were thinking on that plane. The academic obsession with you in general seems to be doing your thinking for you. In fact, when you first started staking out the cultural fringe, you dismissed any idea of a higher social agenda. We were told that "Papa Don't Preach" was "Just a song." And "Open Your Heart" was "just a video." Now we are supposed to believe that you have transformed yourself into an icon of social tolerance...
...Weld to run for a higher office, or even for re-election, the fiscally conservative/socially liberal needs to "fashion his own policy," according to Sondra Sheir, a Democratic Cambridge election commissioner. And without the power to uphold his veto of Democratic legislation it won't be easy for Weld to push his agenda...