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...unexpected honor and pleasure to have my first Monthly paper recognized by the Lester R. Ford Award,” Elkies wrote in an acceptance response that will be included in the prize booklet distributed today...
...It’s an incredible honor to have been asked by the secretary-general to do this, and it’s the kind of honor you don’t pass up,” Orr said. “This is the first time I will have to work for the collective governments of the world, and I think that will be a challenge and an honor...
...indication of how popular Hamaguchi has become in Japan is that she has been given the honor of carrying the country's flag at the opening ceremony in Athens. Though other Japanese wrestlers Saori Yoshida (who has never lost an international competition) and sisters Chiharu and Kaori Icho are all expected to bring home gold, most Japanese eyes will remain on Hamaguchi. Her main rival will be American heavyweight Toccara Montgomery, who handed Hamaguchi a rare defeat in their last meeting. Hamaguchi claims to be keeping things in perspective. "I am the strongest I have ever been in my wrestling...
...German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has spent the entire summer publicly apologizing for World War II. He was the first German leader to participate in D-day ceremonies on the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion in June. Last week, he became the first German Chancellor to honor the estimated 200,000 Poles killed by German troops during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. And this week, the Chancellor makes another war-related pilgrimage, this time to Romania. Sixty years ago, his father, Fritz, a lance corporal in the Wehrmacht, was killed and buried with eight other German soldiers...
...fellowship, to be named in Sakharov’s honor, would designate a “visiting scholar or activist from the former Soviet Union,” the Davis Center staffer said...