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...institution that she came from should be mighty proud,” Muesing says...
...garnered a spate of prestigious awards—including several for career contributions to political science—but is most proud of being named one of the nation’s “tweediest” professors by M Magazine...
...influential were no longer untouchable. And so what if the police used investigating techniques that might be deemed unacceptable in other countries? Although not commenting on the merits of particular arrests, Lisbon lawyer Francisco O'Neill Marques says, "Rich and powerful people have been detained. It makes me proud to be a lawyer." Pedroso's was one of several high-profile arrests after an interminable, eight-month police investigation into a pedophile network operating in state-run children's homes known as Casa Pia. Also placed in preventive detention was Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to South Africa, along with...
...months, one of the trendiest pets to own in Thailand has been the Madagascar Giant Hissing Cockroach, an imported species that can grow to centimeters in length and sells in pet shops for $1.20. "They're clean, they're cute and I love the sound they make," explains a proud local pest owner. Besides hissing, they also sizzle. Last week, Bangkok health authorities seized more than 200 of the roaches from pet shops, doused them with DDT and chucked them into a waste incinerator. Madagascar cockroaches were banned in Thailand last year, deemed a threat to national biosecurity. "They...
...full of honors and prizes, spoke about the power of being singled out by the magazine. "TIME magazine is the village pump," he told the crowd. "It's where people go to find out what's going on in the world." All of which made us feel a little proud and enormously humble. After all, these people were the ones doing the great work; we'd only written about them. And since heroes, by definition, are in the business of shaking things up, more than a few of ours challenged us. Leonard Van Baelen, a Belgian who pioneered the fair...