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...that spoil your hopefully lavish celebration--Faust will receive $50,000 along with the award. A sincere congrats Drew, from FlyBy...
Sarah Vaillancourt, a tri-captain of the Harvard women’s hockey team, was named a top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award yesterday. The Kazmaier Award is given annually to the top player in collegiate women’s hockey...
...glory days of Thatcherism. In this case he articulated the views of, well, at least 252 people and counting, who have already signed up to a Facebook group called "No Knighthood for Ted Kennedy." Donal Blaney, a Conservative blogger, founded the group and has also inveighed passionately against the award on his website. Why such fervor? Kennedy played a high profile role in Northern Ireland's peace process, working to articulate the cause of nationalists whilst also sometimes criticizing Republican extremism. That's a fine balance which does not satisfy the pro-Irish Union, anti-Ted faction in Britain...
Early day motions rarely are submitted to debate, and in any case, Britain's monarch has already granted the award to Kennedy. The only remaining way to block the honorific, which Kennedy has accepted but not yet collected in the material form of a medal from the British ambassador to Washington, would be for Congress to intervene. Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states that "no person holding any office of profit or trust... shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince...
...prepare for the rigors of the journey, mushers spend months prepping their dogs, who are subject to drug screenings and tracked using collar tags and microchips implanted under the skin. And while the competition is intense, participation counts: organizers present the last-place musher with the "Red Lantern" award as a tribute to his persistence. (The slowest Red Lantern winner, John Schultz, took more than 32 days to reach the finish line.) Each finisher also receives more than $1,000 to defray travel expenses. (See pictures of the science of snowflakes...