Word: respecting
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...Calif., for the last time, dozens of well-wishers, firefighters and police officers lined the streets and stood on overpasses to see the black hearse go by. A group of teenage girls held a sign that read WE LOVE YOU. For De Leon's mother Barbara, the show of respect was in part a salve for an old wound. De Leon's father had served two tours in Vietnam. When he returned to the U.S., "they treated him like crap," she says. The motorcades and hand-painted signs that honored Mario's death were in stark contrast to how returning...
...Illinois State Senate, creating consensus to improve the lives of Illinois citizens. And they do not count the formative years he spent in Indonesia, where he developed a true international perspective. Now, Senator Obama has drawn on these formative experiences with great success, first and foremost with respect to the situation in Iraq...
Over the years Counter has provided refuge for the less heard and represented voices at Harvard. I had the personal privilege of interacting with this courageous man. He went to great extents to empower students from all walks of life to realize their dreams. His respect for this institution is beyond questioning; so is his aspiration for its potential...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, has earned respect not only throughout Harvard’s campus, but also beyond our gates due to his continuous engagement with students of color over many decades, which has ended up leaving the Harvard community a more welcoming place, and indeed the world a better place. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 (“Dishonest Discourse,” column, May 21) is not wrong for bringing up her true feelings about issues of racism on campus, but she is out of line when...
...Director S. Allen Counter and the Foundation only serve to distract from the issue at hand. Further, the articles border on blatant disrespect for both the students affected by the incident and Counter, a man whose dedication to many student groups and individual students acknowledge has contributed to their respect, legitimacy and existence on campus. These two articles are lacking in their journalistic integrity; but worse, they are also lacking in their humanistic integrity for genuine respect for all of those on Harvard’s campus...