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Plimpton was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002 and named a Chevalier of the French Légion d’Honneur...
Oldenburg is a former Crimson executive, and has received the Legion d'Honneur of France, the Order of the North Star of Sweden and the Order of Isabel la Católica of Spain. He is also the honorary chair of Sotheby's North and South America...
...professorship is only one of many awards Steiner has received for his work, including Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of France's Legion d'honneur...
...these ingratiating efforts, and his considerable commitments to various charities, acceptance within the British elite has eluded al Fayed. In France his restoration of two fabled Paris properties, the Ritz Hotel and the Bois de Boulogne villa of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, earned him La Legion d'Honneur. But in Britain al Fayed could recite--and often did--a list of the many slights directed at him by the Establishment. After he poured $50 million into restoring the Windsor villa, he grumbled to the New York Times, "Not one single official said, 'Mohammed al Fayed, thank...
...sullenly in the compound of Camp d'Application last week as the Americans dismantled Haiti's only arsenal of heavy weapons. Church bells joyfully tolled noon as U.S. vehicles towed the few Haitian armored cars and artillery pieces through the camp's wide iron gates, past a mural proclaiming HONNEUR, DISCIPLINE, COMPETENCE. Along the road leading to Port-au-Prince, a crowd of civilians applauded and cheered...