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...Morgan Stanley security chief rick Rescorla may very well be the greatest American hero no one has ever heard of. Rescorla's many friends - from his Army days on - have been advocating a Presidential Medal of Freedom for him. But that has gone nowhere, because to celebrate his achievements and sacrifices on 9/11 calls attention to those - at the Port Authority and elsewhere - who got it all wrong. Steven R. Hansen, Jonesboro, Ariz...
...pork medallions may not have been made of gold, but they just as well may have been when Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) won a gold medal at a culinary competition on June...
...team, which has been attending the conference for the past five years, earned a gold medal and ranked second place overall in the competition. The top spot was claimed by Delaware North, one of the largest privately owned food service companies in the world...
...Britain stripped Mugabe of the honorary knighthood conferred on him by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, and canceled a planned cricket series between England and Zimbabwe. The country's athletes are headed to next month's Olympics in Beijing; among them is Kirsty Coventry, who won a swimming gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004, earning her the affectionate nickname "golden girl" from Zimbabwe. By contrast, South Africa's athletes were banned from Olympic competitions for three decades, and being barred from international competition in rugby and cricket was a psychological blow to the white minority...
Former White House spokesman scott McClellan deserves a medal for having the courage to tell the American people what many already knew [June 9]. Life inside the Beltway is nothing but a struggle for power. While it is an honor to be appointed press secretary, McClellan should not be expected to stand before the Washington press corps every week preaching the Administration's line when the messenger knows full well that what he is saying is untrue. Larry Marthaler, LONGBOAT...