Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narked" on. But Harty has been around long enough to know that many kids can't be scared straight by the law. "I've arrested kids who just love to see the squad car pull up," he says. "Some of them see a rap sheet as a badge of honor...
...revelations from the past. (Mark that "unwanted"--it's essential to understanding the play as a whole.) The opening scene, however, is laid not in the Ekdal home but in the rich red study of the wealthy businessman Hakon Werle (Jeremy Geidt), who is hosting a dinner party in honor of his only son, Gregers (Stephen Rowe). We learn that the two men have been estranged for many years, but that old Werle, on the eve of a new marriage with his housekeeper, Mrs. Sorby, is seeking a reconciliation. The son will have none of it, however, particularly after learning...
...True Medal of Honor recipients and their families have a right to be outraged by [H.S.I. Lordship Industries Inc.'s] conduct...
...District Judge William G. Bassler yesterday before imposing the maximum fine allowed under federal guidelines on Lordship, the company that holds the contract to make the nation's highest combat decoration, for selling 300 bootleg Medals of Honor...
...above are simply examples of the ambiguity of history. What we do today has less to do with what actually happened in the past than what drives our passions today. The proposal to honor all fallen Harvard alumni in the Civil War was an innocent (and naive) gesture to add to the general knowledge of what happened in mid-19th century America. Like Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, I have concluded "Alas,...That day has [not] arrived," but for a different additional reason. We should have known better in our times to bring up the subject when...