Word: honorables
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...maybe the oldest story we know about the waters off Cuba, and certainly the most familiar. A man fighting the sea and wresting from it a great victory: his honor. But Hemingway's old man had 80 years to prepare for his high-seas battle...
...student body in Decatur, they account for 87 percent of the expulsions. This is an unequivocally troubling statistic. However, racism it does not necessarily imply. At this point the appropriate logic seems trite, but perhaps it still bears repeating. If Asians account for a disproportionate percentage of the honor roll, should we assume that they are the beneficiaries of school board favoritism? There may be complicating factors that land black students in trouble, but those factors do not necessarily include administrative racism. Rather than defending seven men caught on tape fomenting a brawl, perhaps Jackson should be devoting the same...
...stamping out the little fires, and viciously. It can work if you need to rationalize what we're being trained to do, but of course we're not supposed to need that. The Army is a tool, just like the rifle, and it's the excellence, the honor, the individual braveries of combat that are supposed to drive us. Whether they occur at Normandy or in Haiti doesn't matter here, only that a soldier killed whom he could kill and saved whom he could save. I can shoot now, and I really like hitting what...
...portrait you gave us of republican presidential candidate John McCain is of a man fully alive [CAMPAIGN 2000, Dec. 13]. His heroic military past is astonishing. McCain is at times a statesman and crusader and at others a family man, raconteur or stand-up comic. His mixture of humanity, honor and humor is unique to the present political scene. He wins you over with his personality and his message. OLIVER HARPER Phoenix, Ariz...