The New-York Tribune wrote, "To this colored man was the nation indebted for the first vindication of its honor on the sea".
For all its honor, though, cooking at the White House is trial by fire for a restaurant chef who must perform in unfamiliar surroundings.
College sports has its usual dramas, but Brigham Young added an unusual twist: dismissing one of its best players, Brandon Davies, for violating its honor code and thus imperiling a potential No. 1 seed.
E1 Kennedy Center Honors The Kennedy Center announced recipients of its honors for outstanding American performers, and for the first time most are foreign-born.
The very fact that the Academy is aware of its existence, let alone considers it for its highest honors, is a sign of an industry that is more fluid than ever and of a time when the studios often function as distributors and the field of production is wide open to grassroots newcomers.
In 2003, for example, its honors programs were peeled off and became separate small schools in its large brick building on Astor Avenue in the Pelham Parkway neighborhood.
For all its honors, a play that dissects words like "antineoplastic" and talks of invasive epithelial carcinoma is still resisted by many people.
When Chicago finished the work, with help from a community of women, and some men, five years after beginning it, enthusiastic fans organized dinner parties for real women in its honor.
