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This was already stretching a point. The holders of honorary knighthoods - a motley crew that includes U2 lead singer Bono, his potty-mouthed countryman Bob Geldof, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and, until the honor's revocation last year, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe - are not allowed to style themselves "Sir," a distinction reserved solely for subjects of Queen Liz. But where Brown really got himself in hot water was with his explanation of what the Massachusetts senator had done to deserve his quasi-ennoblement. Kennedy had contributed to improving American health care, boosting educational provision around the world...
...local level, we’re delighted that the senator from the state we represent is being honored,” Pickerill said. Other notable Americans who have been named honorary knights include former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, author Elie Wiesel, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell...
...Parsons, a moderate Republican who campaigned for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1989 (and worked alongside him at his law firm), has served every Republican president since Richard M. Nixon in some way: under George W. Bush, he was a member of the presidential task force that studied the possibility of making major changes to Social Security. In 2008 he joined the Obama transition team's Economic Advisory Board before being named Citigroup chairman...
...days. Rudy used to like to party and so did I. And so we would keep everybody at the firm until all hours of the night and then we would go to Les Oubliettes or someplace and dance the night away." -On life with his law firm colleague Rudy Giuliani, New York Times...
...break loose. One November evening in 2007, Obama stood in a school gym in Grundy Center, Iowa (pop. 2,596), while a woman explained that she didn't think he could protect the country as well as a Republican. "Don't think that I care any less than Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney about making sure that my daughters don't get blown up," Obama told her. He paused for a moment and then laughed, knowing he should probably stop there. "I live in Chicago," he continued. "It's a much more likely target than Grundy County...