Word: honoring
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...spells out in dialogue what the images have eloquently shown. But short of being there, you'll never get closer to the on-the-ground immediacy of the Iraq occupation, its sick tension, its toxic tang. This is one of the great war films, and our own Medal of Honor winner...
...hailed as an athletic superstar in Peru. It seems that majority of Peru's sports stars are female. For example, she is now the 76th name to be added to the "cornice of fame" at the National Stadium in the Peruvian capital Lima - the 39th woman to receive the honor. She has thus widened even more the advantage for women athletes in a country where men take sports very seriously but women win medals and championships. "It is a strange phenomenon. There are few countries in the world where the most respected athletes, the role models, all happen...
Camps have been eager to negotiate. Some are even leaving it up to parents to decide what they can afford. In New York City, overnight YMCA camps have started a tiered-payment system in which parents essentially use an honor code to determine whether they need to get up to a $400 discount on the $1,397 tuition for the two-week sessions. As of June, 43% of enrollees had opted to pay the full amount, 13% took $200 off and 44% took all $400 off. (Read "Recession Shopping: 10 Things to Buy Right...
...south of Los Angeles is a polyglot of Cambodians, Latinos, African Americans and Anglos. Incomes in this inner city neighborhood are low, violence sometimes high, but Long Beach boasts one of the best urban school districts in the nation and Sokhoeun is one of the stars. A 4.35 GPA honor student, Sokhoeun has been admitted to UC Irvine and has received a financial aid award of $13,000, which includes a Cal Grant of $3,500. The daughter of parents who fled the Khmer Rouge, she views education as "the social ladder to success and respect" and is determined...
...From the beginning of the process, the University asked bidders to honor the existing contract negotiated by the current vendor and Local 615, and Securitas has agreed to do so," Galvin said...