Word: valorize
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...Barley, a predictable rendering of the 1920 Irish battle of Catholic peasants against the Black and Tans; Bruno Dumont's Flandres, a horrifying but uninvolving study of Belgian farmers committing atrocities in an African war; and Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (Days of Glory), which dramatized the valor of Algerians who fought for the French in World War II, then found their pensions denied them after the Algerian conflict - an inspiring and troubling true story, encased in a deeply ordinary movie. A pair of young U.S. directors tried their hand at political statements, but fell, respectively, into obviousness...
...former war correspondent, who spent two decades covering conflicts in Africa and the Balkans for Spanish media. He wrote his first novel when he was 35 and says of his hero: "He looks at the world in the way I do - a hostile and dangerous territory where courage, valor, loyalty, friendship are defensive weapons." Pérez-Reverte sees a connection between Alatriste's Spain and today's prosperous, conflicted country. "Spain of the 16th and 17th century, full of darkness and also culture and beauty, is the explanation of many things now," he says. "To understand all that...
...Valor often requires little more than the common sense of a 6-year-old. Three days after Katrina ravaged New Orleans, Catrina Williams, the mother of first-grader De'Monte, decided she had to get her family out of their flooded Uptown neighborhood. But when a small rescue helicopter finally touched down at their apartment complex, the pilot said he could take only a handful of children; he would come right back for the parents. Reluctant but seeing the floodwaters about to swallow their home, Williams tearfully put De'Monte, 6, and his 5-month-old brother Da'Roneal...
...para servir a la poblaci?n asi?tica de California), y mantener una l?nea de ayuda operada por enfermeros las 24 horas, en espa?ol. Establecida en 1980 como un peque?o grupo de cl?nicas en el sur de California, hoy en d?a se ha convertido en una compa??a HMO p?blica, con un valor de $700 millones, con sede en Long Beach, 800,000 clientes en seis estados y oficinas por abrir en Texas y Ohio. Molina, de 47 a?os, recuerda c?mo su padre, un m?dico de urgencias, comenz? con las cl?nicas para ayudar a inmigrantes con Medicaid que no encontraban doctores dispuestos...
...were in the valiant vow: "We are go at throttle up!" This meant the crew was about to apply maximum thrust, which turned out to be a fatal act. In the coming days, we will learn what the last words from Columbia were. Perhaps they too will reflect the valor and optimism shown by astronauts of all nations. It is time NASA and the congressional committees that supervise the agency demonstrated a tiny percentage of the bravery shown by the men and women who fly to space--by canceling the money-driven shuttle program and replacing it with something that...