Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terry Eastland, Meese's principal spokesman,said the campus backlash against the KennedySchool dean's decision to honor Meese "is just nota matter of overwhelming significance...
Recently, this doctrine has been challenged by leaders of both Black South African groups and pro-divestment organizations in this country. They claim that if Blacks want disinvestment--regardless of the economic consequences--then the U.S. should honor their wish...
...criticism, a K-School spokesman proposed that the medal be regarded as a "party-favor," a kind-of door prize for attending the K-School's birthday party. But most clearly, the medal was awarded with little or no thought about the merit of the recipient. Indeed this honor seems an egregious, blatant example of tawdry pandering to national politicians. And the person to blame is Allison, a special Department of Defense consultant, who, it seems, wanted to score more points with the Administration. Of course the K-School is enamored of power, but we had hoped, not mindlessly besotted...
Given the obstacles and numbing complexities of the case, some observers have argued that it should never have come to trial. But the Italian judiciary felt honor-bound to move against the alleged assassins. Says Marini: "This trial had to take place." The legal proceedings, moreover, are not entirely finished. A Roman court has begun a new formal inquiry into the presumed plot and assigned a trio of senior investigators to handle it. In the Netherlands, officials continue to probe the background of a Turk who, on the final day of a 1985 papal visit, tried to enter the country...
...aging woman returning to her roots in The Trip to Bountiful. William Hurt was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a homosexual prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The awards for Best Supporting players went to Anjelica Huston, who was a Mafia princess in Prizzi's Honor, and Don Ameche, 77, for portraying the rejuvenated geriatric in Cocoon...