Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After leaving office, Lamm abandoned politics to teach and write, returning to the stage for a brief and ignominious Senate race in 1992, in which he lost in the primary to Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Since then he has been a prophet with marginal honor in his own land, lecturing earnestly about the shame he feels at being part of the first generation that will not pay its own way. "We've got to stop bullshitting the public," he told TIME. "The economy of the '90s can't support the dreams...
Question, as posed in Courage Under Fire: Should she, as the result of these actions, be the first woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor? Answer: maybe yes, maybe no. Heroism must be investigated before it can be officially rewarded and--talk about ironies--the semidisgraced Serling is assigned to the inquiry. Plagued by guilty nightmares about his own conduct and drinking too much as a result, he is soon waist-deep in Rashomon country. For the survivors of the episode tell conflicting stories, some of which hint--hold on for more ironies--that Walden might actually have...
...while. Director Edward Zwick has a deft way with combat scenes, and nobody is better than Washington at conveying tormented dutifulness. What's not so O.K. is Courage Under Fire's pretensions to moral seriousness. It would like to be a thoughtful meditation on bravery, honor, truth--the big topics. But it's really just a crudely manipulated mystery story, building suspense by arbitrarily withholding pertinent information. It's hard to take its thoughts on integrity seriously when it exhibits so little of that quality in its own storytelling...
...20th century to watch two powerful, talented American women competing, power bite for power bite, for the position of--First Lady. Why are Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton, both "accomplished and ambitious" politicians with Ivy League degrees and high-flying careers, battling it out for the honor of being the unpaid helpmeet of the most powerful man in the world? Is it because they're devoted wives or because the White House has a glass ceiling? If these women have star-quality expertise, then, yes, we should hold the proposed Hillary-Liddy debate. And next time, elect one of them...
DIED. DAVID MCCAMPBELL, 86, Medal of Honor naval aviation ace and commander famous for shooting down 34 Japanese planes during World War II; in Riviera Beach, Florida. His Air Group 15 shot down hundreds more...