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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...
Dean of Radcliffe College Philip-pa Bovet said she is convinced that Mackay will do an excellent job, like her predecessor Janet A. Viggiani who gave up the post to travel and attend law school...
...professed a "don't mess with success" attitude towards programs supervised by her predecessor Viggiani...
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Clinton, though to all appearances well-trained in forensics, poses even greater dangers to the language than did his predecessor. The Anglophone world has escaped the danger of syntactic bankruptcy only to face the more insidious threat of semantic bankruptcy...
...What an honor it is [to win the election]...You don't understand how difficult it was to run against two very good friends," Beys said. "To borrow a phrase from my predecessor, we've got to hit the ground running...