Word: medaling
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When the Winter Olympics open on Feb. 12, two Harvard alumnae will get the chance to defend their gold medal on home...
...That tacit policy has now changed. As part of an intensifying campaign to silence Iran's opposition, authorities in Tehran last week confiscated Ebadi's Nobel medal from a safety deposit box and froze her bank account, according to Ebadi and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, which protested on behalf of the Nobel Committee in Oslo. A spokesman for the Iranian government denied that the medal was seized and said Ebadi's assets were frozen due to her failure to pay taxes. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
...government's focus on Ebadi seems to be designed to hit her before she regains too much power as the thorniest critic in the government's side. But the seizure of her Nobel medal and the threats against her family seem poorly calculated. "The irony of all this is that such policies give Ms. Ebadi more prominence," says Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii. "In effect they make her harassment itself the human-rights message that they are trying so hard to prevent her from expressing...
President Faust was invited to speak in front of this large crowd of distinguished guests. However, rather than first thanking the Veterans and their families, she instead began her speech by lamenting the fact that none of Harvard’s Medal of Honor recipients were women. Finally, she emphatically stated that “I look forward to the day when Harvard’s daughters are honored on this plaque as well...
Does she know that 60 percent of all Medals of Honor awarded since WWII have been given posthumously? Does she therefore look forward to seeing Harvard’s daughters killed on the battlefield? Why did President Faust not also bemoan the fact that there are no black or Native American Medal of Honor recipients from Harvard? In fact, President Faust could take an active role to encourage more women to join the military and earn this award if she would allow ROTC back on Harvard’s campus...