Grand secretary Brown argues that the initiations are allegorical one-act plays.

BBC: Would you want to be a Freemason?

The daughter of Louisiana's GOP secretary of state and grand-daughter of a former Democratic governor, Marjorie has never before run for office.

CNN: AllPolitics

Transcripts of grand jury appearances by presidential White House Secretary Betty Currie reveal that she testified under considerable prodding.

BBC: President's secretary was reluctant witness

Instead, the treasury secretary's plan lays out several grand themes that may or may not be used to craft future legislation.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The appeals judges did throw out one part of Marshall's conviction, a grand larceny count involving work he had his mother's social secretary do for a theater production company he was running.

WSJ: Astor son, 88, loses appeal, could face prison

To be the secretary of defense, you see, is a bit like being the grand marshal at an Independence Day parade: You wear a sash, you hold a baton, you say a few words, you smile, wave and walk the route.

WSJ: Stephens: Hagel's Hruska Defense

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for a two-year hold on mining near the Grand Canyon.

WHITEHOUSE: Around Town

At the time of the cabinet reshuffle, Yoshiro Mori, one of the LDP's grand old men, foisted Taro Aso onto Mr Fukuda as the party's new secretary-general.

ECONOMIST: Japan

He is accountable, first, to Donald Dewar, the (elected) Scottish secretary who chose him for the job, and, second, to the Scottish Grand Committee, which allows members of the Commons to interrogate all ministers, including those who sit in the Lords.

ECONOMIST: Peer pressure