Word: respecting
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...disturbing. The warm human qualities of the men killed - love of family, God or music - perhaps called for more subtlety than adherence to your editorial stylebook, which in this case was cold and harsh. Referring to the servicemen by their first names would have been a gentler act of respect. Jez Abbott, HASTINGS, ENGLAND
...interview in February, Faust said that she has “enormous respect for these students who commit themselves to this effort and to the service of their country,” but that Harvard should treat the issue in the broader context of whether it should recognize discriminatory groups...
...members puts it, "He gets it." In the age of Barack Obama's inspiring bid to become the first black candidate to win a major party's presidential nomination, it's time to give Reyes, Rangel, Conyers and the other minority chairs in the Democratic majority Congress the proper respect that Dellums spent two decades to earn...
...hotelier in Mandawa. But how will the wealthy Marwaris of Kolkata treat the scion of their erstwhile liege? Will they remember the bad old days when their families clung to the walls of his castle, treated with scorn as grubby moneylenders? "No, no, we treat all maharajahs with great respect," says Rajesh Khaitan, a prominent Marwari lawyer and ex-politician, sipping coffee in the city's elite Bengal Club. "But speaking for myself, I may not give much money." Being a maharajah, alas, isn't what it used...
Afghan police have long been perceived to be ineffectual and corrupt, but over the past few years intensive police training programs have started to bear fruit. Slowly the force is gaining respect among Afghans. A planned ceremony marking the handover of the program from the Germans to an international training force was to take place later today. With Afghan police increasingly becoming the target of insurgent attacks, this morning's blast highlights just how difficult rebuilding this country?s fractured government institutions will...