Word: honors
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...patch. Though he reigned as one of Italy's premier financial magicians during the 1980s, he had become only the latest of more than 2,500 business leaders and politicians to be implicated in Italy's omnivorous corruption scandal. But having lost his empire, his power and now his honor, the thought of a prison cell was apparently too much for him. Lying on a bed in his 18th century Milan palazzo two weeks ago, just hours before he would have been arrested, Gardini pressed a pistol to his temple and fired...
...Cohens and her roommate, a gay white man named Brian Mock, killing both. And a few months earlier in Birmingham, Alabama, three young skins awakened a homeless black man named Benny Rembert and knifed him to death. It was the killers' idea of celebration; they had been drinking in honor of Hitler's birthday. Says Sergeant W.D. McAnally of the Birmingham police department, who helped arrest several local skins: "Hell, the Klan is a bunch of old farts who ride around shooting and cussing, burn a cross and then go home. These little kids will get worked...
...middle-aged now, with five kids and a wife. He can't say no to the Captain, but love and good sense tie him to his family. In a jumbled kind of way, he manages to honor both obligations, and everyone heads toward the Mexican border and the winding down of McMurtry's beguiling legend. The author's minor characters are sketched with a fine, loose skill; there's an old Indian tracker named Famous Shoes, and a white man who has spent his life roaming the Southwest with a pack of dogs, killing off the region's bears...
...Being selected as Wellesley's 12th president is a great honor," Walsh said in a statement released yesterday. "I approach this new challenge with excitement and humility, and in the sure knowledge that I will have much support from the thousands of extraordinary women and men who care deeply about the future of Wellesley and the future of the world...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...