Word: deservingness
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President George H.W. Bush awarded medals to Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell - who also earned one from Clinton - Secretary of State James Baker, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in 1991. In a similar move, President George W. Bush gave the nod to Tommy...
On July 31, the group that congealed out of those early demonstrations - the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) - is celebrating its 40th anniversary at a national convention in Washington. The all-volunteer group, comprising some 11,000 members nationwide, will use the meeting to raise funds, lobby congressional...
In the weeks since the two speeches, Iran has shown the world a different, more muscular image of Muslim women. The Tehran protesters, in their emerald hijabs, were not human signboards for imposed conservatism, as Sarkozy might think. But nor did they fit Obama's formulation of Muslim womanhood, one...
The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, is renewing debate over affirmative action, not least because it reverses a judgment signed off on by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But the controversy over such programs goes back decades. It was President Lyndon Johnson who first attempted to combat inequality with laws taking...
TIME could have found someone more deserving of magazine space than Perez Hilton [June 8]. Hilton makes his living humiliating people for entertainment. On top of that, he intentionally used his position as a judge at a beauty contest to sabotage a contestant's shot at the crown because she...