Word: honors
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...long ago I was at a gala dinner to mark an important anniversary. There were 50 Heads of State present, perhaps more, who came to honor the heroes and victims of the greatest war in human history...A slight chill went down my spine, for I could not help observing that one table had been singled out as being special and particularly important. It was a table for the big powers...The architect of that seating arrangement...was not guided by a sense of responsibility for the world, but by the banal pride of the powerful...
...above stodgy old legend into the sky of myth; and there she soars, eagle-like, watching over the land and its contentious people. That's apt for a role model for any child, red or white. And it's perfect for a film romance that earns a place of honor among Disney's latter-day animated film stunners...
...International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...
...sympathetic portrayal of American Indians, both sides are missing the point. It's just a cartoon, for gosh sakes, a familiar boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story. And a well done story at that, says Corliss, "a film romance that earns a place of honor among Disney's latter-day animated film stunners...
Warsaw, which was founded in 1837 in what hadbeen Osage Indian territory, was named in honor ofa Polish general who aided the Colonies during theRevolutionary War, according to John Owen, a92-year-old Warsaw resident and a member of thelocal historical commission. The town is the seatof government for Benton County, named after aU.S. Senator from Missouri...