Word: honors
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...right-hander won the league's triple crown in league play this season. In the 20 league games, Morgan batted 470 with six home runs and 24 RBI's. Furthermore, he took his share of league honors in overall games. He finished first in home runs (eight), first in RBI's (34), and third in batting (413), Another Crimson player of note has been senior Co-Captain Mike Hill. In overall games, Hill finished second in league home runs (five) and first in doubles (15). In addition, he has been on a particularly impressive tear at the plate...
Counting his four years as a teaching fellow, said Mansfield, "I've been teaching at Harvard for 35 years now, and nothing like this has ever happened to me," he said. "I'm delighted with this quite unexpected honor...
...take "tough steps" to end Russia's power struggle. The battle has spread beyond the parliament. His rebellious Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, has launched his own campaign against the reforms, claiming he has "suitcases" of evidence of official corruption. An angered Yeltsin compared his former ally's sense of honor to "a dirty cleaning...
...literature has the terminal glums. This Renaissance jester is a yea-sayer, a missionary for joy. "Usually when I'm asked why I write," says Rudnick, 35, "I reply, 'To avoid a day job.' But the truth is that there are people in real life I want to honor. It's easy to write about despair. It's tough to present optimism realistically and appealingly. I think it's a worthwhile goal to help people find genuine pleasure without feeling like fools. So I do try to celebrate. It doesn't get real Samuel Beckett in Paul Rudnickland...
...decided he'd stick it to the obstructionists." The President's innate arrogance took over. "Bill Clinton firmly believes he can exit any jam and gain any success simply because he's so smart and works so hard," says a longtime Clinton friend. "The badge of honor in his White House is the fact that no one dawdles and everyone brags about not sleeping." (Such an affection for process over substance dominated the early months of the New Frontier too. "Yeah," said Robert Kennedy in a sober, after-the-fact recollection, "those were the days when we thought we were...