Word: honore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealing in drugs and girls and antique Buddhas when the guerrillas are not. At night, in the Heart of Darkness bar, the talk is all of $200 hitmen and whole villages in the business of peddling 13-year-old girls. Pizza restaurants are called Happy and Ecstatic in honor of their ganja toppings, and two of the main sites of entertainment have long been shooting ranges (public and private) where you can lob hand grenades or fire away with M-16 assault rifles. To rent a 24-room guesthouse on a lake, with a view of distant temples, costs...
This was the first year that all of the donations to the senior gift went to a scholarship fund named in honor of the class, and coordinators of the gift said this arrangement may have been one of the reasons for the increased participation...
...itself has retarded such progress by creating and embellishing an absurd though appealing connection among guns, personal power, freedom and beauty. The old western novels established a cowboy corollary to the Declaration of Independence by depicting the cowboy as a moral loner who preserves the peace and his own honor by shooting faster and surer than the competition. The old gangster movies gave us opposite versions of the same character. Little Caesar is simply an illegal Lone Ranger, with the added element of success in the free market. In more recent movies, guns are displayed as art objects, people...
...within a few months, his account, among others, was purchased by Fleet Bank, which gradually hiked the rate to 26.9% and said Stadelman couldn't close the account until he paid off his entire $8,500 balance. "It's highway robbery," fumes Stadelman. "Credit-card companies used to honor their agreements." Technically, they probably still do, Mr. Stadelman, but only if you read the fine print...
Four Harvard Square establishments--Up Stairs at the Pudding, Pho Pasteur, Alpha Omega, and Marathon Sports--were also given the magazine's Hall of Fame awards. That honor is given to establishments having won an award for three out of the past five years, according to John Strahinich, executive editor of Boston Magazine...