Word: honors
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Nice of him to offer. But if human dignity has much to do with chess mastery, then most of us are so abject that not even Kasparov can save us. If we must vest the honor of our species in some quintessentially human feat and then defy a machine to perform it, shouldn't it be something the average human can do? Play a mediocre game of Trivial Pursuit, say? (Or lose to Kasparov in chess...
Oops! After the Alanis Morissette song You Oughta Know won a Grammy, the Mississippi house of representatives passed a resolution honoring the native son who wrote it, Glen Ballard. Then lawmakers read the lyrics. Shortly after they came across the F word, they rescinded the honor...
Just as the Motion Picture Academy tends to honor showy performances, it also lauds movies whose editing is either dramatically nonrealistic or fast fast fast. The theory is that editing is good if you notice it. But most movies work in the style of romantic naturalism; their goal is to make you believe, not to concentrate on the artistry of each of the 400 or so shots in a standard feature film. Editing, then, is the seams that don't show. The rule in Babe, says co-editor Jay Friedkin, was "Never break the spell." Most editors follow that commandment...
...about being denied the right, the honor and the moral duty to serve the country which we live in," he said...
...Harvard has treated [ROTC students] as if they were lepers. It's a slap in the face of every undergraduate who still values honor, duty and country," said John Applebaum...