Word: honors
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Officials from all over the world gathered in San Francisco last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter, the first of many occasions on which the U.N. will honor itself in the coming months. Yet even as the anniversary festivities began, two incidents roiled up to illustrate how difficult the U.N. finds it to live up to its own principles. Foreseeably, both controversies were related to human rights, the issue that has often forced the U.N. to compromise the idealism of its origins...
...friends and enemies of Newark mayor Sharpe James can agree on one thing about him: he knows how to toss a mean birthday party. The annual shindigs in honor of Hizzoner are renowned for the open bar, catered buffet and Vegas-caliber pizazz. On one occasion, the glad-handing Democratic politician glided dramatically into the darkened room at the wheel of a vintage sports car. Another time he motored across a bed of ice on a growling snowmobile. At $200 a seat, or $500 during re-election years, the admission price was considered cheap because it also bought...
...Vocal minorities, in the name of politicalcorrectness, are pressuring...institutions toforce ROTC off campuses--often campuses receivinglarge amounts of taxpayer support," amendment'sother co-sponsor, said on the House floor. "Thisis outrageous. It is a slap at the honor anddignity of service in our nation's military...
...July 11,76 years after becoming the first woman on Harvard's faculty, Alice Hamilton will be honored with a postage stamp issued in her honor, postal officials announced on Wednesday...
Cabot House, formerly South House, was named in honor of Cabot and his wife, Virginia W. Cabot. The Cabot Science Complex is also named for the couple...