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...Harvard. As one of the University’s most distinguished sons and actively engaged alumni, Senator Kennedy has touched the lives of numerous undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. His lifetime political achievements merit one of Harvard’s highest honors—a doctorate honoris causa awarded at commencement. We urge the University to award Senator Kennedy that honor this year before his condition deteriorates...
...realize that awarding Senator Kennedy an honorary degree this year would not only involve making an exception to that tradition, but would also require circumventing the lengthy process of vetting and determining honorands and making last-minute arrangements in the next week. These obstacles aside, if the Corporation and Board of Overseers, who retain the power to award honorary degrees, truly want to honor Senator Kennedy in this way, they may still...
Despite his storied résumé and his indelible impact on Harvard, it is possible that Senator Kennedy may never receive an honorary degree. Harvard tradition, amongst other things, requires that honorands attend commencement in person and that degrees not be awarded posthumously. These rules prevented the late philosopher Richard M. Rorty from receiving an honorary degree at last year’s commencement, the day before he passed away. While we certainly hope that Senator Kennedy will continue to serve in the Senate for many years to come, his cancer prognosis is grim: although the seriousness...
...Harvard should not risk losing the opportunity to award Senator Ted Kennedy an honorary degree. His contributions to Harvard, Massachusetts, and the United States are simply too great to go unrecognized. In light of his recent diagnosis, we hope that President Faust and her fellow members of the governing boards will call his name at Tercentenary Theater this year...
...that's the case, they can take heart: Cannes award winner Three Monkeys is an engrossing tale of an Istanbul family torn apart by their secrets. In tone, if not style, it is a departure for Ceylan and has even been described as a thriller, albeit a meditative one. "Hopefully the Cannes charm might coax viewers into giving Ceylan a chance," says film critic Emrah Guler. And if that's not enough to get Turkish moviegoers to the theaters, the director stands in good company, with the likes of Woody Allen, of filmmakers embraced by the arty French but neglected...