Word: honors
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...great East-West debate does not really trouble the average Russian much. He thinks such questions are the proper concern of the intelligentsia, a cultural elite that is a unique feature of Russian society. Few other countries have accorded their writers, scientists, artists and poets so much honor and prestige. Such confidence has not always been justified: Russian intellectuals may like to view themselves as social oracles, but they have never been particularly good at predicting the future. Many of the intelligentsia who welcomed the 1917 Revolution became its first victims in the cellars of Lubyanka prison. Today they face...
...says ended in 1980, ranged from a kidnapping Sliwa blamed on cops to a story about a wallet returned to an elderly mugging victim. The Angels have long been controversial, and some press reports allege Sliwa has yet to own up to all such misdeeds. Still, Sliwa says his honor is intact: "My reputation in New York was almost mythically heroic, and this is just a hard reality check." Hard indeed. He says his Angel wife Lisa launched a spinning, kung-fu kick at his face when he told her about his fabrications...
Anticipating the Tareq-901, rechristened in honor of an Islamic hero, the U.S. Navy had already dispatched the nuclear-attack submarine Topeka to the gulf. Western experts suspect that Iran's sub is equipped with SA-16 infrared- guided antiaircraft missiles obtained from the Russians two years ago, as well as its normal armament of 18 torpedoes...
...Queen Elizabeth II in an unusually personal speech last week at a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London in honor of her 40th year on the throne...
...Harvard win seemed guaranteed by junior Brian Farrell seven minutes into the second when he tore through two defenders and gave Captain Ted Drury the honor of placing the sugar-coated puck on the top-shelf...