Word: medals
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Adams, a well-known social ethicist, taught at the Divinity School from 1956 to 1968. Harvard awarded him a 350th Anniversary Medal in 1986 for distinguished service to the University...
...them as elected members of Congress; a gay man is president of the Minnesota state senate, and another is the Democratic candidate for secretary of state in California. Unabashed gays are employed as doctors, lawyers, teachers, police officers. Pop stars and Olympic heroes acknowledge they are gay -- as gold-medal diver Greg Louganis did, movingly, during Saturday night's opening ceremonies at the Gay Games. The gay dollar is courted by big companies, and gay tourism is encouraged, not only in Miami and Los Angeles but in traditionally conservative Pensacola and Palm Springs as well. Gays rally for rights...
...still looking for an organizer to mount the spectacle. As of last week, two handpicked candidates had turned down the top job, both saying their existing employers offered generous pay raises to keep them. Many critics feel the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games flubbed by offering bronze-medal remuneration -- $292,000 a year -- for a gold-medal job. Others are aghast that the honor of the position is apparently not incentive enough. Said salesman Charlie Perkiss: "They must start looking for someone who believes in the Olympic spirit...
...rebuked by the national press and members of the University's faculty for awarding a medal of "distinguished public service" to Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...NCAA gold medalist also earned the Breed Medal and the most valuable fencer award, and was named to both the All-Ivy and All-American First Teams...