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...when she received the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Her hometown of Detroit, Mich. also named a street in her honor. “I think she’ll be remembered in many ways, perhaps most profoundly as an ordinary citizen who helped the nation take an extraordinary step to greater justice,” said Christopher Stone ’78, Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Kennedy School of Government. Yesterday, President Bush recognized Roses’ contribution to American history and the 20th century. Although...
...Gore ’69 was feted with organic chocolate mousse and locally grown pasta this past Saturday by Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment in recognition of his work to address and combat climate change. The Global Environmental Citizen Award, which is awarded annually to individuals who have worked to raise awareness of global environmental change, was given to Gore at a reception in New York. Previous winners of the award include Harrison Ford and Jane Goddall. “Al Gore made strides to address environmental issues during his political career...
...volume is a departure from what attracted so many readers to “Jimmy Corrigan.” “ACME” contains despicably wonderful losers such as Rusty Brown, a more realistic and thus more disgusting version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter’s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...
...joined by one of the few sitcom wives with any personality, Leah Remini and the legendary Jerry Stiller—father of Ben—as her live-in father. This weeks’ episode marked the departure of Nicole Sullivan, who plays dog-walker (and senior-citizen walker Holly) for a co-starring role on the new show “Hot Properties,” a show about hip New York real estate brokers and which is exactly like “Sex and the City,” only terrifyingly unfunny...
...most gambling establishments in the U.S. remains at 21, and of the states with a legal gambling age of 18 at least four are in the process of raising the limit to 21. Undoubtedly, turning 18 is a significant milestone in American life. At that age, a U.S. citizen often is asked to gamble things far more serious than their money: their lives. As soon as U.S. citizens turn 18, they are eligible to be drafted into the army; high schools in America are required by law to submit information on all 18- year-old males to the federal government...