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...graduate in question, now-Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’56, who was awarded an honorary degree at a special convocation on Monday. At the ceremony Kennedy entered a select group thus distinguished by Harvard University, joining George Washington, Winston Churchill, and Nelson Mandela in the honor. Sen. Kennedy’s rise to his position atop American politics was, of course, a tumultuous one that unfolded across decades. The youngest son in one of this country’s most influential political dynasties, Kennedy decided against a career in professional football to take up what had become...
...event, co-sponsored by Chabad and Hillel, was the second in two days held in honor of the victims...
...believe that writers have to be happy and well in order to write.” Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Barbara J. Grosz described Lewis’s work as embodying “so clearly the artistic and humanistic pursuit that this lectureship was established to honor...
...nearly a half century and was diagnosed with brain tumor in May, received an honorary degree from Harvard at a convocation ceremony in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon.Over 50 years after he graduated from the College with a degree in Government, the youngest member of the famous political family was honored for his lifetime commitment to public service.“I hope that in all the time since then I have lived up to the chance Harvard gave me,” Kennedy said after he received a doctorate of laws from University President Drew G. Faust.Any fears the senator...
...major obstacle” in providing patients with ARV drugs, adding that high cost and lack of availability of the drugs are not sufficient explanations for why the government did not implement an ARV treatment program. Chigwidere, who spoke at the Museum of Science last night in honor of World AIDS Day, said yesterday that he chose to study South Africa because it is one of the countries that has been “most affected” by the AIDS epidemic, as one in five adults in South Africa is infected with HIV. He added that as a native...