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...British citizen. Kennedy will also likely receive his award from the British ambassador to the United States, rather than Queen Elizabeth II, who knights only British subjects. A date for the ceremony has not yet been set, Pickerill said. Brown, who is currently visiting the U.S., announced Kennedy??s award during a speech before a Joint Meeting of Congress. “I hope that you will allow me to single out for special mention today one of your most distinguished Senators, known in every continent and a great friend,” Brown said. Nominations for knighthood...
...close advisors, with Frankfurter later becoming one of FDR’s appointments to the Supreme Court. But FDR did wield the privilege of his birth at times. His first presidential nomination was orchestrated by fellow Harvardian and millionaire real estate speculator named Joseph P. Kennedy, class of 1912. Kennedy??s machinations behind the scenes won FDR the California delegation during the Democratic primary.THE CHARISMATIC CATHOLICWhile he never captured an elected office, Joe Kennedy bequeathed his political hopes to his sons, both of whom attended Harvard. John F. Kennedy ’40 arrived in Cambridge under...
...pasted in a bricked-up eave of The Garage stands in close proximity to a graffitied iron gate and the faded, stained-glass windows of John Harvard’s. The juxtaposition is subtly ironic, as the antiquated windows adopt cultural figures of their own—John F. Kennedy??s head, for one, is cropped onto a saint’s body, with “Ask not what your country can brew for you, ask what you can brew for your country” below. The interplay between Fairey’s work and the preexisting...
...Duncan Kennedy??s description of the situation in Gaza is, as far as I know, entirely accurate, really even prosaic. That it may seem controversial is largely because of the extraordinarily one-sided coverage that the mainstream media in the United States provide for our consumption on most aspects of Middle Eastern politics. All of us have an obligation to inform ourselves about this painful and dangerous situation as fully as possible...
...Somehow, that “context” is entirely absent from Kennedy??s account...