Word: honoring
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When financial record-keeping at some of Harvard's student organizations was shaky, the Administration organized a seminar for all student treasurers to enhance the quality of finances in the organizations. At other campuses, administrators rely on an Honor Code instead of proctors at exams. Above all, college students are assumed to have integrity, and failure to adhere to a certain standard of integrity results in serious penalties. Surely those we trust (at least a little) to run this country can be asked to adhere to a standard of integrity, as well. Otherwise, it seems superficial to expect integrity...
...most tantalizing mysteries of Elohim City, however, is the controversial notion that a young visitor named Carol Howe heard advance word there about the Oklahoma City bombing and warned the Federal Government. Howe, a former honor student at Tulsa Metro Christian Academy, fell in with Tulsa's Skinhead set. Before long she found herself at the side of Dennis Mahon, leader of White Aryan Resistance and the purveyor of Tulsa's Dial-a-Racist phone line. Mahon, 46, who until recently kept his Airstream trailer at Elohim, claims that his first contact with Howe was a letter she sent...
That community, usually ignored by the big Hollywood players, is now the hot place to be. In last week's honor roll of Oscar nominations, four of the five finalists for Best Picture (The English Patient, Fargo, Secrets & Lies and Shine) were released by independent companies; only Jerry Maguire came from one of the seven major studios. Indie films did handsomely in all top categories: three of the slots for Best Actor, four for Best Director, all five for Best Actress. For once the Oscars looked less like the Tonys and more like the Obies. Off-Hollywood had beaten Hollywood...
...looked on, another great performer sat at the head of his table at Sardi's and devoured his chopped sirloin--very rare--from a silver platter. One might have been tempted to say Pa was a lucky dog, but there was no luck involved in being the guest of honor at the annual Dog Fanciers Club luncheon. It took 500 years of breeding, 90 years of experience and one squeaky toy to get Pa this special meal. "Actually," said Pa's "ma," Rita Holloway, "he likes his hamburger cooked, with a little salt and pepper...
Pedants who complain that Academy Awards don't really honor the year's best work in cinema because they ignore little, independent art-house movies--and hey, did you know that French toast isn't really from France?--must come to terms with what they have wrought now that the Academy has indeed honored a bunch of little, independent art-house movies. The result is a dull, nonglamorous contest with, alas, little prospect for Oscar-night silliness. Secrets & Lies' Brenda Blethyn is a wonderful actress, but don't expect her to show up dressed like Geena Davis...