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"I wasn't the bearer of my fruit, but I made all those changes and took the gamble of taking an enthusiastic squad that was playing outstanding rugby."

Yesterday’s countesses lacked those freedoms and were bound to serve as propriety’s standard bearers.

Then again, how can there be with such a mendacious, felonious, libertine as their standard bearer?

"We decided pretty much straight away that he was going to be our ring bearer," Brad says.

Bill Moyers, a soft-spoken former White House aide turned journalist who became a standard bearer of quality in TV news, died Thursday in New York.