Word: distinguishedness
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Meanwhile, Congress itself has come to seem increasingly fossilized. The party that threw out the British colonizers, led India through three wars with Pakistan and laid the foundations for today's economic growth is now widely seen as a collection of distinguished but inactive has-beens who are blind to...
This year’s Tribute to Black Men also saw the inauguration of the Dr. S. Allen Counter Distinguished Faculty and Administration Award, given this year to its namesake. Counter is director of the Harvard Foundation, a University intercultural foundation.
“Annan is a distinguished statesman engaged in many of today’s most important global challenges,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said in a press release.
That was the inauspicious start of a long and distinguished career that next saw him as point man on Johnson's Great Society programs. He was the consummate Washington player and proud of it. "I aspired to be the next Clark Clifford," he writes,"[who] set the standard for practicing...
In these terms, a Lars von Trier movie is a dream-nightmare come true. And Nicole Kidman, who not only endured but also apparently savored her 17-month incarceration while making Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, is just the actress to see directorial fiat as a fast car worth...