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That said, the Hughes brothers deserve commendation for considerable, tasteful restraint in the, um, execution of the actual murders. Much is left to the imagination, as subtle shadows obscure physical wounds or the deliberate panning away of the camera leaves much violence out of the frame, even if the gory...
In 1968, while others of his generation were attempting to avoid the draft, Mueller enlisted in the Marine Corps. After officer candidate school, Army Ranger School and Army jump school, he shipped out to Vietnam, where he commanded a rifle platoon. Toward the end of his tour he became aide...
In the commendation for his Nobel prize, which Sen received in 1998, the committee wrote Sen "has improved the theoretical foundation for comparing different distributions of society's welfare and defined new, and more satisfactory, indexes of poverty."
Although I myself attended the awards with the ostensible objective of augmenting my knowledge of the Boston music underground, I must confess I was enticed, as any mortal must be, by the idea of swooning at the sight of Boston's hometown celebs. Flipping through the awards booklet, I began...
McCaul has been honored for police work. She received a letter of commendation from the director of the FBI, Louis E. Freeh, for her help in an investigation of a 1994 New Hampshire armored car robbery.