Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affairs will center on commemorative dinners held by each house for their residents. Most of the dinners will honor distinguished guests, and many houses will sponsor symposia open to all undergraduates...
...plan for the week was conceived with four goals in mind: First, to provide opportunities for undergraduates to celebrate this important anniversary of the college. Second, through House and college-wide events to create occasions for special character and quality that will prove inspiring and memorable. Third, to honor the alumni and faculty who have achieved distinction in some field of letters, music, and intellectual pursuit and who, as with the Masters and Senior Tutors, promote leadership and vision for us. Fourth, to create social events that will allow students to meet each other in pleasant surroundings and simply...
Four of the featured events--two luncheons, a tea, and a dinner, all with distinguished guests of honor--are by invitation only. For example, a luncheon to honor writing at Harvard, an event that might interest a wide audience of students, has been closed to all but 60. The coordinators in University Hall have already drafted the guest lists. The bulk of the invitations will soon land in the mailboxes of students who hold positions of perceived power or prestige in campus organizations. In demographic terms, your 17 percent chance of gaining admission to Harvard was more than double...
Reading that book, A Man of Honor, helped Giuliani realize that the little understood 1970 RICO act could be used against the Mob. "Bonanno has an entire section devoted to the Commission," Giuliani recalled. "It seemed to me that if he could write about it, we could prosecute...
...logistics of such a sweeping interdiction are indeed daunting. Some 160,000 ships, boats and pleasure craft enter U.S. harbors, bays and inlets annually. There are about 88,000 border crossings by aircraft every year. "To honor the House directives," said Weinberger, "the Pentagon would have to find some way of enforcing a 4,000-mile naval blockade...