Word: honoring
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Junior midfielder Armando Petruccelli let the cross bounce through the middle, and Hench trapped it on the right side of the box. Hench--who was named to this week's Ivy League Honor Roll--put a low line-drive shot on net, beating Cornell keeper Andrew Barton, who was glued to the near post...
Last week talk-show hostesses OPRAH WINFREY and ROSEANNE vied for the arguable honor of conducting the first non-grand jury grilling of Monica Lewinsky. When negotiations with Winfrey seemed to fall apart, allegedly because Lewinsky asked for money, Roseanne picked up the ball and offered some--a lot, in fact. If Lewinsky is still debating her choice, we offer some points to consider...
...national crisis is in inverse proportion to a nation's wealth and power. America in its opulence gets presidential docu-porn--what the Washington lawyer Lloyd Cutler calls "Full Monty impeachment," the risky, tiresome romp of a resourceful President who, caught in violations of the school's honor code, violates it further in protesting his innocence...
...notice one damning convergence. In 1994, the United States, having been burned in Somalia, was desperate to stay out of Rwanda. How to manage that? By pettifogging. By arguing about semantics: the Clinton way. His Administration, pressed to honor the 1948 Genocide Convention (not to mention human decency) by intervening, quibbled at a furious rate about the meaning of the word genocide. Madeleine Albright, who was Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. in 1994, temporized as the death toll in Rwanda climbed into the hundreds of thousands. It was, as Gourevitch writes, "the absolute low point of her career...
Although its offense has been completely inept, Cornell's defense has managed to keep the games pretty close, having allowed only two goals in its last three matches. Sophomore goalkeeper Meghan Cauzillo was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll last week for her solid play. She will have to be on her game tomorrow, as Cornell figures to see much action on the defensive side of the field...