Word: honored
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...midst of another drought, and thousands of peasants are again on the move, trekking across the parched landscape in search of that bag of flour or handful of beans that will keep them going for a few more days or weeks. Ethiopia, which has earned the unhappy honor of being rated the globe's poorest country by the World Bank (average annual per capita income: + $110; infant mortality rate: 16.8%), is on the brink of disaster again. At least 6 million of its 46 million people face starvation, and only a relief effort on the scale of the one launched...
Last month Scott Shannon, a deejay at New York City's top-rated WHTZ-FM, who obtained a copy of Dear Mr. Jesus from WRBQ-FM in Tampa, played it in honor of Lisa Steinberg, the six-year-old girl allegedly beaten to death while in the care of a Manhattan couple. Within 24 hours, Dear Mr. Jesus became WHTZ's most requested song; it still prompts 3,000 calls a day. Since then, stations across the country have discovered the same phenomenon. Last week New York- based Island Records was one of several companies seeking the rights to Dear...
More than 200 scholars of everything from mathematics to metaphysics will in two years gather at Harvard for an international conference to honor an 1859 College graduate whose interests spanned many academic disciplines, officials said yesterday...
...national average of children per family. (The .3 would be a party with warm beer and no music). As part of the new leaf, the deans invested the Senior Tutors with additional powers and a new title, Allston Burr Senior Tutor and Dean Wharmer Party-Buster, in honor of the famous dean who brought Faber College's Delta House under control...
...five collections that contain some lastingly important essays. He defined and demonstrated in a new way what it meant to be black, and to be white as well. And when he died last week of stomach cancer at his home in St.-Paul-de- Vence, he died covered with honors. "It's a love affair," he said on being made a commander in France's Legion of Honor in 1986. "This is the place where I grew up, insofar as you can ever say you grow...