Word: honoring
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...join George Washington and Winston Churchill as the other recipients of such an award conferred at a specially convened Convocation is not only a singular honor. It also holds great symbolic significance: To the mind and to the future memory of this great American institution, the name of an African is now added to those two illustrious leaders of the Western world...
...even if the timing of these special ceremonies is motivated only by the recipients' schedules, it is all too easy to place these men in a special category. The headline in The Crimson announcing Mandela's visit read "Nelson Mandela to Receive Rare Harvard Honor." Mandela did not really receive a rare honor--many others have received honorary degrees each year. He just received this honor at a rare time of the year. Yet we are now led to think of Mandela in a triad of great men with Washington and Churchill...
...greater name recognition, physical protection and accolades than members of other professions. The hoopla Mandela received only confirms society's elevation of politicians to demi-gods. Perhaps, in the future, Harvard will promote a sense of appreciation for members of other professions by awarding the University's next "rare honor" to, say, a female scientist. --MELISSA K. CROCKER
...back office, I had brought an apple square and put a candle and had put his birthday presents out. And after he came back in and I sang happy birthday and he got his presents, I asked him...if we could share a birthday kiss in honor of our birthdays, because mine had been just a few weeks before. So, he said that that was okay and we could kind of bend the rules that day. And so...we kissed...
...celestial object. On Aug. 8 the International Astronomical Union voted to change the name of the asteroid previously known as 1992WY4 to the 7829 Jaroff. Eleanor Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who discovered the asteroid in 1992, recommended the name to honor Jaroff's "well-researched, insightful articles and essays on scientific subjects" and his efforts to "draw attention to the issue of NEOs [near earth objects] and the potentially catastrophic consequences for our civilization should a large comet or asteroid strike the earth." The 7829 Jaroff has a diameter...