Word: honorableness
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...Your Honor, for many years up until my arrest on December 11, 2008, I operated a Ponzi scheme through the investment advisory side of my business, Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC, which was located here in Manhattan, New York at 885 Third Avenue. I am actually grateful for this first opportunity to publicly speak about my crimes, for which I am so deeply sorry and ashamed. As I engaged in my fraud, I knew what I was doing was wrong, indeed criminal. When I began the Ponzi scheme I believed it would end shortly and I would be able...
...lopsided scoreline gave coach Delaney-Smith a chance to honor her seniors in front of the large home crowd. In perhaps the most emotional moment of the season, injured co-captain Niki Finelli—out for the season with an ACL tear—entered the game to a huge round of applause with a little over 30 seconds remaining in the game...
...annual beauty pageant, held by the Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Association, sought to determine "Harvard's most attractive boys of the Asian persuasion." The winner—Christopher A.T. Van '12—trumped the others in the talent, formalwear, and swimsuit categories, winning a free haircut and the honor of representing Harvard at Wellesley's Mr. ASU Pageant...
This was already stretching a point. The holders of honorary knighthoods - a motley crew that includes U2 lead singer Bono, his potty-mouthed countryman Bob Geldof, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and, until the honor's revocation last year, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe - are not allowed to style themselves "Sir," a distinction reserved solely for subjects of Queen Liz. But where Brown really got himself in hot water was with his explanation of what the Massachusetts senator had done to deserve his quasi-ennoblement. Kennedy had contributed to improving American health care, boosting educational provision around the world...
...much less politicians. "Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the [Irish Republican terror group] IRA, but he certainly ...was no friend of the U.K.," said Lord Tebbitt, a stalwart of Margaret Thatcher's government, whose wife was crippled by an IRA bomb attack in 1984. "This honor is wholly inappropriate on the basis of the sleaze attached to [Kennedy] after the crash at Chappaquiddick, let alone his support for nationalism in Northern Ireland...