He sought to honor a world that was slowly, and not so slowly, slipping away.
James showed up in a Chicago Cubs uniform to honor a World Series bet with his buddy Wade, then scored 27 points.
Other favorites among older gamers include Wheel of Fortune and Medal of Honor, a World War II adventure game, he said.
The most historically significant aspect of this proposal, however, has been overlooked: The monument in front of the armed forces' busiest recruiting station would honor a man who avoided the World War II draft and spent much of his life trying to live it down.
It seems safe to infer that filial guilt had its role in the creation of "Truth," as did the wish to honor an existence that the world at large would consider unremarkable.
What a California lawmaker intended as a benign resolution honoring a late, world-renowned movie star has exploded into an emotional debate over decades-old racist comments.
On Tuesday, though, some of those old key men were back on the job, broadcasting from the former headquarters of a marine Morse station in Northern California, KPH, and joined on air by two other stations outside Seattle and in Mobile, Ala., all to honor a system that linked the world long before the Internet, e-mail and Twitter.
"And tonight we gather here again, not simply to light some decorations, but to honor a story that lights the world".
I'm a German American and, like many others residents of Los Angeles County, whose tax dollars pay for the park, I find the new sign offensive, not simply because it honors Paul von Hindenburg (a World War One hero and Germany's president from 1925 to 1934 who appointed Adolf Hitler as German chancellor in 1933) but because it obscures the site's ugly past.
As the tributes flowed in from everywhere, the sports world stopped to honor a giant now gone.
Two doctors will be honored: Benjamin S. Carson Sr., a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins, and Anthony S. Fauci, a leader in AIDS research as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
