Word: honors
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...experience it. When completed, it takes on a life of its own, and all we can hope for is that its life is long and healthy. Utzon understood that. It is easy to be wistful about the lost possibility of another Utzon masterwork, but perhaps it is better to honor the sacrifices Jorn made for this one, which will shine forever...
...Nixon overruled his aides' urging that he contest the result, saying that any delay in naming a new president would tear the country apart.) He felt scarred by outsider status even when he became the most powerful man in the world. His notorious Enemies List became a badge of honor for liberals like Paul Newman and Daniel Schorr, though being declared presidential pariahs couldn't have been funny at the time. White House tapes released just this week have Nixon muttering that he'd never let Ivy Leaguers in the building...
...HSCI Executive Director Brock C. Reeve admitted that Melton’s chances of actually winning the honor are slim...
...Sunstein ’75, a recently appointed professor at Harvard Law School, discussed the poisonous spread of spurious information in a society that is growing ever more technological, and the ramifications of this on the press and the law, in a speech yesterday. Sunstein, whose lecture was in honor of his recent appointment as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, surmised that in an information age when not all sources can be trusted, especially on the Internet, the public will begin “triangulating” its sources, not believing in any one, trusted source, but rather trying...
...Florida in a presidential election in 64 years, and one of Martinez's other big troubles is his own plummeting approval numbers, thanks in no small part to his close ties to President Bush. But that could all actually be a motivator for Jeb, whose sharp sense of dynastic honor is probably rumbling - especially since the conventional wisdom had always been that it was he, the smarter sibling, who should have been President in the first place...