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...Phelps, believe that U.S. troops die in combat because America condones homosexuality. Albert Snyder, the father of a Marine killed in Iraq in 2006 whose funeral was protested by Westboro parishioners, sued the group for inflicting intentional emotional distress and won nearly $11 million in damages in 2007. (The award was later reduced.) But the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down that ruling in September, saying that while the speech was "repugnant," it was protected under the Constitution...
Bartnett-Hart’s thesis, entitled “The Story of the CDO Market Meltdown: An Empirical Analysis,” was awarded summa cum laude after she turned it in a year ago, today. She won the Harvard Hoopes Prize for her thesis – a prestigious award given each year for outstanding theses, papers, or final projects by junior or seniors...
Josh Ozersky is a James Beard Award-winning food writer and the author of The Hamburger: A History. You can listen to his weekly show on the Heritage Radio Network and read his column on home cooking on Rachael Ray's website. He is currently at work on a biography of Colonel Sanders...
...Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, won the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order...
...Thailand's recovery from the world recession has recently picked up steam, with Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij garnering the Finance Minister of the Year Award from British-based magazine the Banker. But farmers have been complaining that rice prices have been falling and that they have not been benefiting from the recovery as a result...