Word: distinguishedness
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That iconoclastic take didn't convince everyone present. "The man's going to be remembered as a blithering idiot," said a distinguished British journalist, whose temper had not been sweetened by the elaborate security measures that inflicted a two-hour wait in a stifling room before the press conference began...
But civil libertarians, human rights activists and lawyers who have been challenging the Bush Administration's stance on Guantánamo for years hailed the Supreme Court decision as a major step forward. "The court has brought the Constitution home from exile," said Professor Eric M. Freedman, Maurice Deane Distinguished...
He has landed himself in hot water after becoming embroiled in Kenyan tribal politics. He has contracted and fought off a virulent case of malaria. He grew up in a three-room house with neither electricity nor running water, and his parents both left school at the age of 14...
Each year along with the induction of exemplary undergraduate students, the chapter awards honorary memberships to distinguished members of the faculty and the broader academic community.
Harvard’s administrative structure does not guarantee that undergraduates are left out of the calculus when important or symbolic decisions are made, but it explicitly empowers administrators to do so. The fact that Dean Smith, who has otherwise distinguished himself from his predecessors through his uncharacteristic concern for...