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Such purity of conduct is hard to maintain in a permissive era. In the mid-'70s, West Point was rocked by a cheating scandal; 152 cadets were dismissed or re signed after plagiarizing on a take-home exam. Whole companies of cadets had gone "cool on honor," an internal investigation found, in part because the honor code had become "trivialized," used as a tool to enforce petty regulations...
...wars, and are proud of their vocation. Perhaps most important, today as in the past, is that its graduates endeavor to live the West Point motto, no small feat in a nation often racked with doubts about its military duties and responsibilities. "We really believed in 'Duty-Honor-Country,' " says retired Colonel John Wheeler Jr., class of '42, "and we still do. The place gets hold of you. When I marched in my first parade I broke down and cried." Open-minded and unafraid to criticize West Point, Cadet Captain Lissa Young is hardly a military martinet. Yet old grads...
...place in history. I don't want people to honor me. Never. I don't deserve that. Because what I do is nothing other than what reflects the wishes of the Chinese people and the Communist Party members. And the policies formulated in recent years have been formulated collectively. In the past 30 years or so, until the Cultural Revolution started, I was one of the principal leaders in China, and I think I should be held responsible for the mistakes during those years. No one is perfect in the world. So that's why I never want to write...
...Honor thy father and thy mother is a sound precept in life, but dubious advice for a writer. From James Joyce to Tennessee Williams, from Virginia Woolf to Mary Gordon, modern literature has thrived on an undercurrent of patricide and matricide. Monstrous parents, it seems, are what gifted children barely survive in order to write about them with inspired resentment. Loving memoirs tend to rank second only to corporate histories of tool-and-die companies as the kind of book any reader can put down. In the face of this, Wilfrid Sheed, a witty, acerbic critic and novelist (Office Politics...
After the match, Charles and Diana planned to relax until the evening's ball at the Breakers Hotel, given in honor of one of the Prince's favorite causes, the United World College Fund. Only then, after their last dinner, their last handclasp, their last quip and thank-you, only then would the tired, probably overfed and over-fawned-upon royal couple fly back to London. They would get home just in time to celebrate the Prince's 37th birthday with William and Harry and for Diana to tell her boys bedtime stories about her whirlwind trip to the colonies...