Born in Romania, Robert Benney was brought to New York as a toddler and became a steadfast New Yorker.
Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available, was found dead on Friday in his New York apartment.
In 1953 he met Jacqueline Roque, who worked in the pottery shop in Vallauris, and from 1954 (they married in 1961) she not only became his steadfast companion, but also, as his muse, she became the principal image and source of inspiration for practically all of the late work.
Over the last year, Ms. Campbell became a steadfast fixture on the social circuit, appearing at dozens of charities, galas, music festivals and fashion events in New York and elsewhere, where, rather than treating her as if she were a carnivalesque curiosity, people acknowledged her as a survivor of numerous setbacks who had come out on top.
He was one of the leaders with Tecumseh but, after the defeat on the Thames, became a steadfast friend of the white man.
Unlike Democrats Davis and Smith, who expressed open hostility toward their Party's Democratic President, Kerry became a steadfast supporter of the next Democratic President and is now reaping his political reward for that act of loyalty.
In his role as Europe's central banker, Mr. Duisenberg has become a steadfast enforcer of the union's rules.
In the latest calibration of his loyalties, Mr. Abu Risha has become a steadfast supporter of Kurdistan-style autonomy for the Sunni desert regions of western and northern Iraq, a position gaining traction in provincial councils.
