Word: citizens
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...freshet of platitudes, insisting that this time they were true. Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, who covered Ford as a member of the White House press corps, admitted, "We went to Vail at Christmas and Palm Springs at Easter - with our families." He concluded, "Farewell, Mr. President. Thank you, citizen Ford...
...earlier incarnation, Aidid was - and some say still is - commander of a clan militia that ruled a district of Mogadishu from the barrel of a gun. A naturalized U.S. citizen and a Marine who served in the first Gulf War, Aidid was a successor to his father, Mohammed Farah Aidid, the warlord who battled American troops in the Somalian capital in 1993, killing 18, in a bloody street battle made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. (Mohammed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996.) Today, by virtue of the Byzantine clan structure and shifting power deals that carve up this...
...home field of their elders, the one time of year that celebrates family and sentiment. Deal with it, kids. These fogies put you through school and probably put up with a lot more. The least you can do is keep your eyes from rolling when a senior citizen plays the Andy Williams Christmas album (or turns the channel to It's a Wonderful Life...
They won't make that mistake again. For delivering such a lesson, and for doing it with good humor in spite of sometimes odious personal attacks, Lakshmi Mittal is Time's International Newsmaker of the Year. "Whether I'm Indian or the citizen of another country is irrelevant in this global environment," he says...
...embarrass us.”But beyond the categories, the real source of embarrassment for the future of general education will come if the Preliminary Report’s guiding philosophy continues to be ignored. Rather than debate the viability of teaching future Harvard students how to be good citizens, professors have become engrossed in the intractable dispute of whether or not departments or fields are adequately represented in the proposed new requirements. Of course, the inclusion or exclusion of “Reason and Faith” and “what it means to be a human being?...