Word: honored
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...Braveheart effect has served this small city 60 km northwest of Edinburgh well. In a mid-19th century swell of patriotism, public donations helped construct a monument in honor of William Wallace, Scotland's fiercest defender. The 67-m Gothic tower stands atop the summit of Abbey Craig, where Wallace is said to have watched the English armies gathering before he chopped his way to victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. But the American high school students here on a spring afternoon 710 years later are more interested in the 4-m-tall sandstone statue...
Lynch and Tillman served with honor, but their honor too was a victim of friendly fire. "The truth in war is not always easy," Lynch declared and then paid homage to all who have served, and died, like the best friend she lost that day when her underarmored convoy went astray. "The truth is always more heroic than the hype." Just less politically convenient...
...University of California, Berkeley. “He is iconoclastic, but constructive, and I think he has a healthy skepticism about the conventional wisdom thrown up by the various disciplines in the social sciences.” The Prize, which includes a $10,000 gift, was established in honor of Albert Hirschman to recognize scholars “who have made outstanding contributions to international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication,” according to the organization’s Web site. When Rodrik learned that he had received the prize about a month...
...Usually, politics is a murky business - gray upon gray, one set of mixed motives jostling with another. But sometimes there is a time for choosing - between courage and cynicism, between honor and disgrace...
...moment of truth. There is McCain's way, a way of difficulty and honor. There is Reid's way, a way of political expediency and dishonor. McCain may lose the political battle at home, and the U.S. may ultimately lose in Iraq. But some of us will always be proud, at this moment of choice, to have stood with McCain, and our soldiers, and our country...