Word: statement
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...This was an unusual action, prompted by the view of his former colleagues that there was not...a scholar in the field of international relations whom the department would prefer to him," said James Q. Wilson, then chair of the government department, in a 1973 statement...
...abstractions such as heroism, sacrifice and valor. A place like the Oklahoma City Memorial or the Vietnam Memorial can send its own messages by challenging the simplicity of such values. By questioning what has been appreciated without examination--the glorification of war, for instance--a monument becomes a statement of values itself. Old memorials used to honor permanence. Newer ones treat permanence as an illusion...
Clinton nominees quickly learned Helms' soft spots. "If you're ever being confirmed by Jesse Helms, always refer to your dead parents in your opening statement or have your kids at the hearing," says a former Helms aide. Albright won him over with stories about fleeing communism as a child and rearing three daughters as a single mom. "She's a classy lady," Helms still says. During his successful confirmation last summer, U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke introduced his mother, then tearfully wished his dead father could have been there...
...Even worse, some in the labor crowd have actually come up with an alternative: Ralph Nader. In somewhat shocking statement Tuesday, UAW president Stephen Yokich said Gore was "holding hands with the profiteers of the world" and said Nader "will take a stand based on what is right." And Nader, longtime corporate gadfly and hard-core environmentalist extraordinaire, is running well enough in all the right places to give Gore the same case of the Perots that George Bush caught in 1992. Nader is running 4 to 5 percent nationally and 9 to 10 percent in California, an absolute must...
Oppenheim's implication of a lack of morality on the part of the Harvard community made me realize that Harvard lacked the most valuable feature of my high school education. The Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City was dedicated to its mission statement to better oneself by serving the community. Two tangible forms of this dedication were a community service requirement and an extensive community service program...