Word: honored
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...TENET: Well, you know, so this is a really painful moment for me. This is a matter of honor and trust, and trust was broken. Trust in the sense of, what are you doing here? So here are the guys [at the CIA] that give [the White House], you know, four days after 9/11, we give [them] the war plan on Afghanistan. Here are the guys that do A. Q Khan. Here are the guys that do Libya. Here are the guys who [the White House] sends to see the [Saudi] Crown Prince anytime there's a problem...
...Donald Knuth, a laureate of computer science’s highest honor, the Turing Award, wrote a long letter to his colleagues on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Algorithms in protest of climbing prices and restrictions on access. After consultation, they followed a dozen other journals’ editors before them by resigning en masse and forming a new open-access journal with a friendlier publisher. Similarly, the Open Access Law Program has 34 law journals (and counting), pledged to making the legal scholarship they publish freely available...
This semester, we’ve enjoyed predicting gloomy forecasts for the radio industry, but like Boston weather, the time has come for something a little sunnier. So, in honor of the coming of spring, we’d like to give you our semester-end round up of everything going on in radio that makes us believe, at least for the moment, that there are some clear skies ahead...
...think it's over," said a friend of the Shamas clan who gave his name only as Jawad. Since Monday, friends say, some of the Shamas brothers have switched off their cell phones and gone into hiding. The uncompromising Bekaa clans are notoriously determined in matters of honor and revenge, which is why Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah took the unusual step of twice emerging from hiding to deliver personal pleas for restraint to the Shamas family. Hizballah is deeply worried that the political crisis created by the standoff between the opposition bloc that it leads and the Western-backed...
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has won three awards, one honoring his pioneering idea to engage middle and high school students in history and science by encouraging them to trace their own ancestry. For his scholarship, Gates has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Wired magazine, and the National Arts Club. “I’m developing a new way to teach African-American history and science for middle and high school kids,” said Gates, the Fletcher University professor. “History will involve people learning how to do their...