Word: valorize
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...force’s work represents a remarkably intense piece of internal criticism from a group of senior professors.The report paints a sobering picture of Harvard’s current teaching culture, in which effective classroom guidance is considered a matter of “individual talent, choice, or valor,” not something FAS sufficiently acknowledges or rewards.“There are a lot of people who care intensely about teaching, but a lot of those same people think the institution doesn’t care,” Skocpol said in an interview last week.Proven skill...
...report paints a sobering picture of Harvard’s current teaching culture, in which effective classroom guidance is considered a matter of “individual talent, choice, or valor,” not something FAS sufficiently acknowledges or rewards...
...saying about waiting to see the whites of the enemy's eyes before shooting doesn't apply when that enemy is a quarter of a mile away, looking at you through binoculars to see when to detonate the IED. Yet there are soldiers in Iraq--and Afghanistan--whose valor at least equals that of past generations of Americans. On April 14, 2004, several Marines were manning a checkpoint in western Iraq when an insurgent jumped out of a car and grabbed Jason Dunham, 22, by the throat. When the Iraqi dropped a live grenade during their struggle, the young Marine...
...Australians on the western front, the 750-km line of trenches that snaked through France and Belgium. In the national memory of the war, Gallipoli is the big event. Places like Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont Saint Quentin are "hardly spoken of," Carlyon writes. Yet they should be bywords for valor?and tragedy. Most of the 324,000 volunteers who sailed off to the war, and many who survived Gallipoli, served in the cold and mud of Flanders and the Somme. There "they did things Australians have never done since." One in five never came home. "There were so many of them...
...Since so many reporters are losing lives or limbs, there should be a special decoration for their bravery. Of course, a medal can't replace the loss of a limb, but it can be a way for the American people to give recognition to reporters who have acted with valor. Jesse E. Foster Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Tokyo...