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...taken it to an extreme. We've taken it to mean that a teenager has no need for his family. And that's just not true." She scolds parents who blame their kids for undermining mealtime when the adults are co-conspirators. "It's become a badge of honor to say, 'I have no time. I am so busy,'" she says. "But we make a lot of choices, and we have a lot more discretion than we give ourselves credit for," she says. Parents may be undervaluing themselves when they conclude that sending kids off to every conceivable extracurricular activity...
...expressed nuanced reservations about affirmative action and women in combat in the past and takes careful time to explain his positions now. "If he told a lie, his tongue would fall out," says his strategist, Dave (Mudcat) Saunders, who won't take any money from him. "His sense of honor is a frightening thing...
...Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) honored the “100 greatest living American gold-medal champions.” William J. Cleary Jr ’56-’58, one-time Harvard student, hockey player, hockey coach, and athletics director, was among them.The honor was the culmination of a lifetime of honors and successes for the athlete, who took a year off from Harvard to play at his first Winter Olympics in 1956, where he helped the U.S. team net a silver medal. Cleary, who did not return requests for an interview...
...remarkably, some say oddly, tightly knit and insular culture. At 179,000 it is less than half the size of any other service- but it usually takes on the toughest fights. Even more than other services, Marines pride themselves on their ability to fight - and live their lives - with honor...
...Bruneval, France Dignitaries and former Resistance leaders last week plodded across muddy fields to the remote hamlet of Bruneval in Normandy. There, at a ceremony to honor a British commando raid, Charles de Gaulle...opened a campaign to recapture power. "The tide goes up and down," said De Gaulle. "Perhaps it is in the course of nature that a period of clear and gigantic efforts should be followed by a period of obscure fumbling. But times are too difficult, life too uncertain, the world too hard to enable one to vegetate too long in the darkness without risk of succumbing...