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...light-hearted White House conversation with representatives of Texas newspapers may have opened a new controversy for President George W. Bush. The President laughed when Knight-Ridder?s Ron Hutcheson asked for Mr. Bush?s "personal views" about the theory of "intelligent design", which religious activists advocate should be taught in U.S. schools as an alternative to theories of evolution. After joking that the reporter was "doing a fine job of dragging me back to the past," to his days as governor of Texas, Bush said: "Then, I said that, first of all, that decision should be made to local...
...boast a seemingly endless array of academic accolades, but Donald M. Berwick ’68, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), last week received an award shared by only a few Americans—an appointment as an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...honorary knight, Berwick will join such Americans as Bill Gates, Class of 1977; Steven Spielberg; Alan Greenspan; Rudy Giuliani; Wesley Clark; and Norman Schwarzkopf...
Berwick is the first American from New England in at least 15 years to be made an honorary knight, according to Evans. At most, two or three Americans across the nation receive the honor each year...
...Knight Commander is the second rank of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, which was established...