Word: honorable
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...Purdah (seclusion of women) and arranged marriage are accepted practices in this strict Islamic society. The chief source of relaxation is bung, a finely ground concoction of high-powered local marijuana that is chewed like tobacco or drunk as a herbal infusion. Tribal values revolve around honor, which the Baluch will go to any length to satisfy, including even paying for it. In one Baluch tribe, $400 is the traditional fine for murder, while the penalties for causing bodily injuries start at $50. Fiercely clannish, the main Baluch tribes are headed by chieftains called sardars. Says Baluchistan Times Editor Fasih...
...themselves with the show's most minor characters, such as Mr. Spock's bride, who has had all of five lines. More than 50 books, not counting graduate theses, have been written, and a Detroit station has been running the program every day for nine years. In honor of the show, the White House even renamed the new space shuttle Enterprise...
...funds from outside sources for survival: the acceptance of gifts from particular private and corporate sources may unduly compromise the university's role in the wider community and its autonomy in making moral and educational decisions. This dilemma is especially acute for a School of Government where decisions to honor donors by agreeing to conditions of gifts, such as names, might conflict with the ideals such a School seeks to teach...
...recommend that the School reject donations if the following conditions are attached: one, if they involve accepting money made in the United States in ways that violate U.S. law; two, if they pose a direct threat to academic freedom; and three, if they seek to honor someone associated with actions that, in the words of President Conant in 1934, strike "at principles fundamental to universities throughout the world." We also agree with the 1969 statement of former Princeton President Goheen in asserting that it is fundamental to the purposes of a university to contribute towards alleviating ignorance, racism, and bigotry...
Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor of Government, last week received the State Department's highest citation, the Distinguished Honor Award; in recognition of his role as principal architect of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy...