Until then, newly appointed home secretaries had nodded along during their department's induction ritual.
The rituals of prison induction are unsettling.
His message is stark: "Corporate culture is killing Japan".For better, for worseThe company song may have gone, but for the moment loyalty, character-building induction rituals and rigid hierarchies remain common for fast-track managerial employees.
Officers testified that Lieutenant Szpond regularly engaged in racist slurs, and ran secret candle-lighted induction and excommunication rituals.
Keith Pittman of Terre Haute, Ind., came for his 12th induction, with friends who have attended the ritual for 17 and 32 consecutive years.
It had a solemn induction ceremony, based on a Taino Indian ritual, in which "aspirantes" held candles and pledged to pursue educational excellence and to dedicate their success to their community.
The international financial crisis has become a kind of induction ceremony for China as a world power, which will go through another ritual when Timothy Geithner, America's treasury secretary, pays tribute in Beijing next month.
Through often delicate negotiations, Gilbert gained access to circumcision rituals for both sexes, an arranged marriage involving a 14-year-old girl and rites marking the induction and retirement of Masai warriors, those "tall, flirtatious and confident" young men who spend the seven most fulfilling years of their lives in the bush, hunting, defending their camps and raiding the camps of others.
My induction was informal.
IT IS a ritual capping a ritual.
