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...Honor” was not any easier for Schafer to translate.“Latin has a word ‘honor,’ but...the shades of meaning are very different,” Schafer said. “Honor doesn’t mean a personal code of right conduct, That notion of honor is foreign to the Latin word.”Although Schafer offered a few suggestions, the Air Force Academy did not take any of them.Graduate student Justin C. Lake said he too has struggled to translate modern English words into august Latin phrases.Lake...
...While entertaining the packed Beren Hall at Hillel, Reiss revealed that half of the show’s writers are Harvard graduates. “People in Hollywood call us the Harvard mafia,” Reiss said. “At least the mafia has a code of honor.”In keeping with the rest of his speech, Reiss didn’t hold back from poking fun at his old stomping grounds. “Harvard has produced lots of funny people: Conan O’Brien [’85]...Henry Kissinger...
...foundation of daily life from the hills of the Basque country to the Andalusian coastline. But the Spanish church was often an overbearing, sometimes repressive presence that brought the Inquisition and provided cover to Franco's fascist regime. Its influence was exemplified by the introduction of the Spanish Civil Code's Article 57, the so-called permiso marital, which required wives to obey their husbands. It was only abolished a few years before Franco died...
...city renowned for its excellent cuisine, and hit the nearby ski slopes on winter weekends. Few outside Lyons understood exactly what Interpol did, and its agents were regularly used as fictional mystery men, portrayed with creative inaccuracy in everything from Patricia Cornwell thrillers to The Da Vinci Code. Even now, a Google search for "Interpol" is likely to bring as many hits for a rock band with the same name as for this global band of law enforcers...
...Dexter, the science nerd is also the killer. The title character (Michael C. Hall) was raised by a foster father who trained him to channel his impulses into killing only other murderers. Dexter dispatches the killers of women and children with clinical elegance. Handsome, charismatic, dedicated to his code, he makes psychopathy look downright sexy...