Word: honored
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Scenario 3: After Harvard denies tenure to a group of junior professors on grounds of "competent and compassionate teaching," a highly organized group of anarcho-humanists occupies the Faculty Club. The protesters only leave after disrupting an academic dinner in honor of Kathleen Turner, and they refuse to appear before any disciplinary body. How should these students be disciplined without violating due process...
...Board, in this disciplinary proceeding, chose to consider Harvard's sole recognized student government as a mere extracurricular activity shows how little respect Harvard administrators have for the council's role as representative of students' interests. Being an Undergraduate Council representative is not just "a sort of recognition or honor" like any other activity; it involves responsibility to constituents and their interests. That responsibility can only be given or withdrawn by students, not by the University administration as deus ex machina...
Since 1983, Honduran military officials have pressed Washington to provide them with sophisticated jet fighters. The Reagan Administration has now decided to honor that request, despite its previous refusals to supply Honduras with advanced warplanes. Instead of the U.S. F-5s that they originally requested, however, the Hondurans have opted to use U.S. military aid to buy 18 Israeli Kfir jets. "We saw problems from the American Congress in getting the F-5s," said a Honduran official...
...best seller. But if truth is often stranger than fiction, there are also fewer happy endings. So it was for Archer, 46, deputy chairman of the Conservative ! Party and the author of six top-selling novels, including Kane and Abel and the current best seller A Matter of Honor. Last week the Sunday News of the World (circ. 4.8 million) carried a five-page story claiming that Archer had offered Prostitute Monica Coghlan (pounds)2,000 ($2,800) to pay for a trip abroad to avoid scandal. The same day, Archer resigned the post to which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...have been stating the facts in order to establish this for our honor, so that someday, when somebody is writing about that episode in our history, they will know what actually happened...