Word: honore
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...College administration and the Women's Leadership Project (WLP) will honor one exceptional student leader with a $750 award, Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87 wrote in an e-mail message...
...couple of guys who've been planted? Sure it does, and the FBI understandably wonders if Connor is trying to take the heat off the real thieves or simply con his way to freedom. But Connor, who lives by a strict code of criminal conduct that is essentially honor among thieves, says you help comrades in distress. By telling what he knows, maybe he can help spring his buddy Billy Youngworth, the other con who says he can get his hands on the stolen paintings--if authorities will drop a stolen-vehicle rap that could keep Youngworth behind bars...
Similarly, the suggestion that Yerma try to have a child with a man other than her husband is rebuffed by her with the insistence that she must maintain her family's "honor": "It is a burden that all [families] must bear." This is the very same "honor" which Juan feels is threatened by the very notion of women not being "shut up inside their houses...
...standing-room-only crowd turned out last night to honor John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus, on the occasion of the completion of a WGBH documentary about his life...
Mandela recently bestowed South Africa's highest honor, the Order of Good Hope, upon Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Perhaps in a testament to their ideological ties, both Qaddafi and Mandela have in the past played host to Louis Farrakhan, the unashamedly anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam. It was Qaddafi's generous offer to the black American leader that raised the ire of the Clinton administration. While Mandela offered no official financial support to Farrakhan, he did receive him warmly, disquieting Jewish communities in South Africa and the U.S. alike...