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...This is obviously a very prestigious honour,” Karoff said, adding that the Academy’s multi-disciplinary and multi-professional nature is unique in allowing interaction between leaders from various fields...

Author: By Margherita Pignatelli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AAAS Taps 17 Profs as Members | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...they hurt blacks more than whites. And while she earned the admiration and friendship of Mandela - in 1997 Mandela praised her "courage born of the yearning for freedom" and "hatred of oppression, injustice and inequity whether the victim be oneself or another" while awarding her a gold medal of honour - she did not flinch from criticizing his African National Congress (A.N.C.) once they won power. (See pictures of Mandela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Anti-Apartheid Icon Helen Suzman | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...poets. The British World War I soldier Wilfred Owen had lived as a minor disciple of literary giants until he was thrust into the abattoir of Europe's cataclysmic war to discover the brutal theme of his art. "Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War," he wrote. "My subject is War, and the pity of War." The war invested meaning into his words, giving them a dark significance that still evokes heartbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Lost 3,000 | 12/30/2006 | See Source »

...Sword of Honour...

Author: By The crimson arts staff , CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Celebrity Lists | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...ARRESTED. Seventeen suspected neo-Nazi extremists; for allegedly planning a series of terrorist attacks on national institutions; in the Flanders region of Belgium. According to police, most of the detainees are soldiers believed to belong to a faction of the far-right Flemish group Blood and Honour. Raids on army barracks and homes found weapons including a homemade bomb, rifles and land-mine detonators. The federal prosecutor's office described the suspects as people "who clearly express themselves through racism, xenophobia, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

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