Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oarsman. The Race will be run and lost in his mind throughout the summer and the following year. It will become an obsession. It is not until the evening after the lost Race that the pleasure of the sport itself slowly seeps back into the body, when the celebrants honor the victors among them who perhaps rarely win the races that are conducted on the river...
NameSports Honor(s) Nina Anderson '90 Swimming All-Ivy Second Team Cyndi Austrian '88 Tennis All-Ivy First Team (doubles with K. Vigna) Rusty Ball '88 Squash All-Ivy First Team Tim Barakett '87 Hockey All-Ivy Second Team All-ECAC Second Team Gia Barresi '87 Field Hockey All-Ivy First Team Softball All-Ivy Honorable Mention Mark Benning '87 Hockey All-Ivy First Team All-ECAC First Team All-New England All-America First Team GTE Academic All-America Mike Bergmann '88 Lacrosse All-Ivy Second Team All-N.E. Second Team David Berkoff '88 Swimming All-Ivy First...
Richard von Weizsacker is not Kurt Waldheim. He should not be placed on any watch list. He should not be excluded from polite company. He should even be welcomed at Harvard, to lecture, to debate, to honor others. But should this apologist for his father's Nazi war crimes be among the two handfuls of distinguished people from around the globe honored by Harvard? Many survivers of the Holocaust and others who care deeply about justice do not believe so. They do not want the Harvard honor to be understood as helping Richard von Weizsacker "rehabilitate his family name...
Acknowledging the genocide of his nation while denying the guilt of those closest to him is not righteousness enough to warrant the Harvard honor. Harvard's system of selecting and rejecting honoraries is so fatally flawed that there does not even appear to be a constructive way to change it. Every member of the Harvard community is ultimately dishonored by this most recent insensitivity. The system should be changed for the future. For the present Richard von Weizsacker must be shown dramatically and unforgettably that those who selected him for the honor do not speak for the Harvard faculty, student...
...blaming him, but he whois defending his family name," Dershowitz said,adding that the German president was not deservingof the honor of speaking at Commencement...