Word: honored
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Perhaps a true honor code, stricter systems of discipline administered by students themselves, and a more democratic from of governance at Harvard can be the answer. Whatever the answer is, it is evident that the ethical instruction at the majority of today's colleges and universities are lacking and have produced many students who are coldly self-centered and lost in today's world. More needs to be done. It is hard to believe that what is billed as the greatest system of higher education in the world cannot do better...
...Young Sam, on the other hand, were already behaving as if the campaign were under way and they were its front runners. On the day of his speech, Roh journeyed to a national cemetery on the outskirts of Seoul and burned incense in honor of South Korea's war dead. Then he visited a military hospital at which riot police injured in the demonstrations are recovering, and a second hospital, where he commiserated with the father of a student lying in a coma as the result of an injury suffered in the protests. For his part, Kim visited two prisons...
...spent the weekend organizing its procedures, which were formal and parliamentary -- and included an important provision that no vote could prevent the delegates "from revising the subject matter of it when they see cause." Then, although Madison had probably drafted the Virginia plan, Governor Edmund Randolph was given the honor of introducing it. It took him more than three hours...
...Federalist papers, in a grandiose moment, predicted that the Constitution would "vindicate the honor of the human race." What the founders created, at any rate, was an extraordinary civilizing program, and a moral style in which conscience -- the Judiciary, the third eye -- was turned into an institution. The genius of the Constitution has been the moral restlessness it embodies, and its capacity to change even while its basic structure abides. Today, all but six of the world's nations either have or are committed to having a single-document constitution. That idea was born in Philadelphia. Reverence...
...should be suspended for the Games. Precedent gives reason for optimism: although there was serious rioting weeks before the Asian Games began last fall, the few demonstrations planned during the event fizzled, and Koreans united in the effort to produce a spectacular show. Says one antigovernment businessman: "The national honor demands that we fulfill our commitment to the Games. If we do not, our credit will be lost forever." That credit is still far from exhausted. The Games may be tarnished by the ongoing violence, but they are still expected to shine brightly...