Our Pyrrhic Victory
Mr. Dorsey summoned a representative group of teachers and student leaders
to his office in order to elicit their reaction to the suspension of the 
football captain. He told them that cheating is a pernicious disease that
would not be tolerated in our school. He loathed having to discipline Art
Krause so severely, but unless strict measures were taken, the student body
would construe the incident as an open invitation of cheating with 
impunity. "We may lose a football game," the principal said, " but we 
can salvage our selfrespect."


To lionize a person--when the famous poet Dylan Thomas visited the 
United States, he was lionized wherever he lectured.
(to make a big fuss over someone)