Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone has the day off. On the way out of town, swing by the war memorial. Your kids may see it every day, but now you can explain what it is there for. Lucky to live in a time of relative peace, they need to be taught that we honor the sacrifice of others. Find out if there's a parade nearby, the kind with high school marching bands, little kids with streamers on their bikes, and beribboned old veterans--the people for whom this day was created...
...students and a funny name: Best Practices High. And now, to her surprise, she couldn't be happier. Few people in town know her school's name--but everyone at school knows hers. Once a shy student with low test scores, Perry, 16, has won admission to the National Honor Society. Her high school, she says, is "small, but it's like a big extended family...
During their year long stay, Nieman fellows audit Harvard courses and participate in weekly discussion groups. Alumni of the program have earned more than 50 Pulitzer Prizes, as well as three Golden Pen awards, the most prestigious honor available to international journalists...
...likely be rich (enabling the first form of public service) and they will likely be well-qualified (enabling service in the second form). Maybe the first two forms allow public service without precluding affluence and influence. Direct service provision, by contrast, is for the humble and the poor without honor and glory in return. But most important, so the argument goes, is the dichotomy between systematic reform and symptomatic reform...
...award] is meant to honor someone who has made an outstanding contribution, primarily to the lives of women. As a cultural anthropologist [Cole] has a long record of service...She has made significant contributions to the cause of justice," Carty said...