Word: upholding
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...third obligation Harvard must uphold here is related to the first, and is the most important of all. It is the obligation university officials have to declare in the strongest terms that the fundamental requirement for membership in a community which is supposed to be devoted to truthful discourse is telling the truth right from the beginning...
...whom House Speaker Newt Gingrich has threatened to expel from the intelligence committee, made no apologies on the House floor today. "I did what I thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House negotiations, averts a partisan blowup in Congress: "Everybody's punting it to the ethics committee, which in the past has taken an interminably long time to reach a conclusion." Democrats...
...admiring piece about Graham Greene and his commitment to understand every position and even sympathize with an enemy [Essay, Feb. 20], Pico Iyer reveals both the implications and the presuppositions of the modern relativist view. It is no surprise that placing mercy over justice would lead a man to uphold someone like Soviet double agent Kim Philby, an operative of the bloodiest dictatorship in history, and receive no moral condemnation for it. What may not be obvious, though, is how the lack of moral integrity today stems from an intellectual failure, the epistemological humility that refuses to hold anything...
Instead of mandating certain standards all departments must uphold, the EPC functions more as a sounding board which allows one department to look at innovations in another, according to Knowles...
...State Department and the National Security Council, both of which thought Perry had agreed to something quite different at the White House meeting. "Perry stepped in a cesspool with that confederation idea," fumed a top official. "That's a code word for annexation. Our policy is to uphold certain basic principles," including Bosnia's sovereignty. Christopher called in reporters to deny any change in U.S. policy. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake delivered a speech in Princeton, New Jersey, siding with State and repudiating any notion of Serb confederation, though he admitted it was "up to the parties to agree...