Word: honoring
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...awarded the honor of Summa Cum Laude from this college should indicate more than just a thorough knowledge of one particular field; it should reveal a deep understanding of a spectrum of areas and of multiple ways of thinking. Summa Cum Laude should be reserved only for those who are liberal arts scholars in the finest sense of the word, immersed in a specific set of issues and grounded in the diverse worlds of knowledge that shape our understanding...
...invitees complained that Brandt told them that Williamson would be there and that it would be a good opportunity to voice their views on the new bankruptcy law. In a statement last week to Senator Charles Grassley, David Thompson of First Chicago said Brandt told him the dinner would honor Williamson. "If [Brandt] was doing it, it was against my wishes and the directions of the White House counsel," says Williamson. Brandt summed up the influence-selling charges as "all garbage...
...didn't give a damn about those who didn't enjoy the same opportunities. No one has ever accused Lott of using racist language or appeals, but Clinton looks askance at Lott's voting record: against extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; against the federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.; against a memorial for civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi; in favor of extending tax breaks to segregated schools. Political consultant Dick Morris, who has worked with both Lott and Clinton, writes in his memoir that during the welfare debate last summer, Clinton privately shouted...
...grudge enough to engage in political payback? Apparently. That's what some concluded last week after watching the man whom Clinton very publicly dumped after the election hand over volumes of paper to Republican investigators on Capitol Hill. And the chivalrous tone of his rhetoric--"It was an honor to work for him, and it is still an honor to work for him," he told the Washington Post--protests a bit too much, laying bare some wounded pride. But the former deputy chief of staff says his cooperation with Representative Dan Burton's Government Reform and Oversight Committee...
MILOS FORMAN Though pressed to strip Larry Flynt ads from France, the director wins Berlin's top-film honor...