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At 31, she has already had more ad hoc laurels lavished on her than many legends receive even posthumously.
Others given victor's laurels included NATO, described by the London Observer as having "saved its reputation and credibility, gaining time to improve its effectiveness as a guarantor of peace"; and the new world order celebrated in Andrew Marr's column in the Observer , "What has happened is a decisive and perhaps terminal defeat for an older Europe, a place of tribal hatreds, double-headed eagles, flaming swords and obscure martyrs.
And yet, as a member of the Conservancy, you know that we can't rest on our laurels or relax and feel secure.
In his otherwise useful and accurate analysis of the issues involving Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar, "," Jacob Weisberg perpetuates the myth that Hollywood has for decades been punishing Kazan by withholding laurels that would have been his had he not named names.
"[I]ts laurels weren't just nods to jingoistic values in a time of social upheaval."