Word: honoring
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...struggle for everlasting glory and honor, a fight to the death. The task was simple: Eat twelve chickwiches in twelve dining halls (and at least one bun). The competitors were not brawny, hulking men but two petite women: Katherine Y. Tan ’10 and Michela C. DeSantis ’10.DeSantis, who had never eaten a chickwich before in her life, took on the Challenge to make up for missing out on the Harvard-Yale Chicken Wing Eating Contest.Tan’s chickwich philosophy was simple: “I’ll just eat them slowly...
...turns out the lowest approval ratings in Cambridge don’t belong to George W. Bush. Instead, that honor goes to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) e-mail client, Webmail. In a recent survey, only two percent of undergraduates stated that they were very satisfied with Webmail, compared with 23 percent who reported being very dissatisfied. This widespread discontent has triggered a mass exodus from the Webmail interface to other clients, in particular Google’s free and convenient service, Gmail. In 2008, 58 percent of Harvard undergraduates used Gmail as their primary email client...
...before the referendum, a truck mounted with a loudspeaker patrolled villages near Rangoon, broadcasting a folk-style song composed in honor of the upcoming vote. Government officials standing on the back of the truck had another message as well: free transportation in trucks would be provided to villagers who didn't live within walking distance of the nearest polling station. Imagine if those trucks had been redeployed instead for the cyclone relief effort. Or if foreign NGOs were given permission to enter the country and coordinate aid work-something that is happening at a glacial pace...
...Three of the soldiers on your recent cover were killed in the battle for Iwo Jima. Your alteration of this photograph devalues their sacrifice and that of many others. At this time when so many families receive a folded flag in honor of their fallen loved ones, your cover is truly offensive. Richard Putney, Richmond...
...choice to make: in the past month, he has wobbled between the high and low roads, at one point calling Obama the Hamas candidate for President after a member of that group "endorsed" the Senator from Illinois. If McCain wants to maintain his reputation as a politician more honorable than most, he's going to have to stop the sleaze. And if Obama wants to maintain his reputation for honor, he'll have representatives from his campaign sit down with McCain's people to work out a sane, equitable campaign-financing mechanism for the general election - and a robust series...