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...National Football League got involved and told Arizona to honor the holiday, threatening that “if anything was done to dishonor the memory of Dr. King,” the committee would vote to rescind the awarding of the Super Bowl to the state of Arizona. Even McCain’s midstream flip-a-roo was not enough; Arizona voters struck down the holiday, and the NFL ultimately changed the site of the 1993 Super Bowl from Tempe, Ariz. to Pasadena, Calif...
...gold tassels to their hats and drape robes colored based on their institution of graduation. Harvard’s doctorate robes are crimson with black stripes on the arms. Further, faculty members who graduated from foreign universities are permitted to wear their often more extravagant—even fur-layered—regalia and hats from their previous institutions...
...pointed out that Wheeler continued to lie in his applications to Yale, Brown, and McLean Hospital, even after being dismissed from both Bowdoin College in Maine—where he spent his first two undergraduate years—and Harvard for academic dishonesty...
Most of the fans, though, do not seem to be acquainted with Wheeler. Many of them humorously admire Wheeler's cleverness—one fan even compared him to Frank Abagnale, whose trickery was dramatized in the movie Catch Me If You Can. Other fans, in response to a status update stating that Wheeler is being held on $5000 cash bail, volunteered to donate money to get him out of jail. One ambitious fan suggested that she could even sell her PS3 to raise money for the bail...
...thought that T-shirts were a good way to make a profit," said McFadden. "But we decided it was just important to break even and get his cause out there," he joked...