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...carefully selected guests waited patiently as the country's aging revolutionary leadership filed into place on the carved wooden balconies of the venerable city hall. Soaked to the skin, the audience heard Army Chief Raúl Castro declare all of Santiago a "hero of the republic" and bestow upon the city Cuba's highest honor, the Order of Antonio Maceo. Then all eyes shifted to the central balcony, where President Fidel Castro, 56, stood alone, his head bowed. Stepping to the lectern, Castro used words he had first uttered to a frenzied and much larger crowd from...
...very good short story is ephemeral. The Best American Short Stories is proud of its egalitarianism--unlike Prize Stories, it doesn't pick first, second, and third prizes. But this is faintly spurious democracy: we make our own choices and rankings, and even Tyler admits that she would bestow larger laurels on four...
...added that he plans to introduce a resolution in the Cambridge City Council tonight asking Harvard to bestow an honorary degree on Parks...
...MacArthur awards are five-year stipends that range from $24,000 to $60,000 annually, depending on age (the older the winners, the larger their tax-free gifts). Fellows also get an additional $15,000 to bestow on their institutions...
...clearly flying to emulate. Typical of his rhetoric are such hollow lines is. We have the experience, the means and the power to make the right choice. We cannot escape the consequences of making the wrong one," Or. "The steps outlined in this section are designed to help us bestow that sense of purpose and national will" Or. "A nation whose children go to bed at night with nuclear nightmares is not a secure nation." "Without this purpose, we will fail. With this purpose, a generation can fashion its place in history. In such purpose, there is hope...