Word: honoring
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...fuel, the Cambridge City Council approved appropriations to help low-income families in Cambridge pay for heating oil and to supplement benefits for families that had exhausted their heating benefits at its regular meeting last night. The meeting also marked the first steps toward renaming Plympton Street in honor of deceased Pulitzer Prize winner and Crimson alumnus David L. Halberstam ’55. The proposal, which will require the Council’s Government Operations and Rules Committee to hold a public hearing about the potential name change, was unanimously approved. The Council agreed to allocate $419,120 from...
...when he resigned in acknowledgment of Alzheimer's ravages. That year, the Association erected, in front of its D.C. headquarters, a 10-ft. bronze likeness of Heston as the cowboy Will Penny, brandishing a handgun. The man who seemed like sculpture on screen had become a statue in honor of his favorite cause...
...nominees include leaders of student organizations, active volunteers at the Philip Brooks House Association, and participants in arts or athletics beyond Harvard, according to Marine. “There’s no one way to define leadership,” she said. Beck, who won the top honor, was instrumental in the creation of the Peer Advising Fellows program and organized a photo exhibit and brought guest speakers to campus after returning from an alternative spring break trip. Beck received a $1,500 cash stipend—funded through an endowment from Terrie Fried Bloom ’75?...
...tortured so badly that he signed a false confession and later contemplated suicide. "I once thought I was man enough for almost any confrontation. In prison, I discovered I was not," he said. "But when I had reached the limit of my endurance, the men I had the honor of serving with picked me up, set me right, and sent me back into the fight...
...McCain road show's usual songs like U2's "City of Blinding Lights," the speakers played "Danger Zone," the Kenny Loggins pop song made famous in the film Top Gun, a story of another hot-dog naval aviator who overcame immaturity and adversity to serve his country with honor...