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Churchill's degree was awarded during World War II. The President and Fellows voted on May 26, 1943 to confer an honorary degree on the head of state whenever he could find time and make his way to Cambridge...
...judge ruled Yale "does not possess thecharacter of uniqueness needed to confer marketpower," and students could have "opted to attend adifferent college or university if they were notsatisfied with Yale's housing policy...
...Radcliffe College ceased to confer its own degrees. The diplomas are [the same] as they have been since 1977, if not before then," Barber said...
...Department of Justice has asked that evidence in its case against Microsoft be sealed. Such a move would allow the DOJ to confer with Microsoft and other companies close to the case to decide which of those documents should be off limits indefinitely. Among the 97 documents in question are e-mails, depositions, contracts with computer makers and internal memos, some of whose contents the DOJ has already leaked, as Microsoft tartly pointed out. But keeping some of the information under wraps could be to the company's advantage -- and a red flag to the news media, which will probably...
...take the drug for the rest of their life? Does the protective effect decrease over time? Will new side effects show up with long-term use? Will tumors that appear while a woman is on tamoxifen be harder to treat (preliminary studies suggest they may be)? Can other drugs confer comparable protection without side effects? And most important, did taking tamoxifen lengthen or shorten these women's life...