Word: valorizes
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Former women's soccer co-captain Emily H. Stauffer '981-'99 was named one of three recipients of the Award of Valor given by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) last week...
...Award of Valor is given to ECAC athletes "whose courage, motivation and relentless determination serves as an inspiration to all," according to an ECAC press release...
...that seems like the kind of overwhelming force Clark had in mind in 1975, still fresh from being wounded in Vietnam and winning a Silver Star for valor, it's not. This campaign is all about controlled force--controlled by politicians in everything from target selection to level of intensity--and that control is making Clark's job more complicated than he could have ever imagined...
Sanger has also been the subject of at least two television movies within the past few years: HBO's Woman of Valor, which starred Demi Moore, and Lifetime's Crusader: The Margaret Sanger Story, which starred Dana Delany. Life magazine in 1991 named Sanger one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the Century" (apparently operating on the belief that the succeeding nine years would offer no further examples of importance). Whenever the media takes notice of Sanger, she is lionized as the ultimate champion of women's rights, as was the case in A Will of Their Own. This...
Among us are a few who have assumed this responsibility with intelligence, valor, wonder and an appreciation that the earth is one intricate ecosystem by which all of life is shaped. They are Heroes for the Planet (though they would hardly think of themselves as such), and they have gladly taken on the task of protecting the natural world from stupidity, greed and careless commerce...