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...pulp fiction; they cogently argued that Hammett and Chandler, and Thompson and David Goodis and others, were worth cherishing (and that writers like Wilson, who's forgotten today as a novelist, weren't.) Yet in this rush to validate the pulps, Spillane was curiously forgotten - a prophet without honor. But with profit. Those royalties kept rolling...
...surprisingly, for many of the same ghetto residents he calls "my people," Zidane's head-butt of Marco Materazzi was a source of pride rather than shame. Kids on the streets of France's banlieue told reporters that defending his honor was more important than the World Cup. Indeed, Zidane's mother may have been speaking for more than just her family when she told a British newspaper, "Our whole family is deeply saddened that Zinedine's career should end with a red card but at least he has his honor. Some things are bigger than football...
...fashion, soccer took precedence last week in Paris. Even at the fall 2006 haute couture fashion shows, talk inevitably turned to Zinédine Zidane, or "Zizou," France's World Cup star. Some editors went so far as to sport les bleus--the team's cobalt blue jerseys--in his honor...
...including some independent schools in Chicago that, for example, have cum laude societies that recognize the top 10% of a class but choose to allow the student body - not GPA - dictate who speaks at graduation. Even in Naperville, a valedictorian is still expected to address the class, but that honor is not chosen until the last weeks of a school year and is not forwarded on to schools in official transcripts...
...Soon after Peretz spoke, Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Siyam issued a call to arms for all members of the various Palestinian security forces, urging them to band together against the Israelis and honor what he called their "religious and moral duty to stand up to this aggression and cowardly Zionist invasion." Other Palestinian officials appealed to the international community to do something to forestall further bloodshed. For those around the world hoping that the very obvious perils of escalation will walk all parties back from the precipice, Thursday's events - and the absence of any sign of significant international intervention...