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Tebbit and Blaney's opprobrium appears to be shared by Britain's rightwing press. "Kennedy is one chum [of Brown's] who should not be honored," opined a Daily Telegraph headline. The historian Andrew Roberts penned an opinion piece in the Daily Mail entitled "The Obsceneity of Giving Ted Kennedy a Knighthood." But the Conservative party - now a touchier-feelier bunch under the leadership of David Cameron - is also divided on the issue. Simon Burns, a Tory MP, submitted the following "early day motion" to the House of Commons: "This House warmly welcomes the awarding of an honorary knighthood...
...well-known womanizer, Stanford has been caught on giant video screens at cricket matches flirting indiscreetly with players' wives and girlfriends. In an interview with London's The Mail, Stanford's father, James, 81, detailed his son's many "outside wives," of which he said there are three, with four outside children. But he told Reuters that his son has six children "from several women." It's hard keeping it all straight...
Just four days after Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim was selected as the 17th president of Dartmouth College, a popular Dartmouth daily e-mail update sent a message to approximately 1,000 students about Kim’s appointment that was laden with derogatory racial slurs. The “Generic Good Morning Message” (GGMM)—a list-serve administered by six students that is not affiliated with the college—sent an e-mail about Kim that directly attacked his Asian origins. “Yesterday came the announcement that President...
...those likely forthcoming will be helpful,” he wrote. “But I think it more likely that the economy will eventually recover despite these policies, rather than because of them.” Fellow Harvard economics professor Kenneth S. Rogoff wrote in an e-mail yesterday that he found Barro’s analysis “highly informative” and “certainly more credible” than quantitative economic forecasts circulated by the Federal Reserve. “I would guess that the risk of the US having a Japan-style lost...
...more than a week winds from Anchorage to the isolated town of Nome, began in 1973. When settlers rushed to Alaska in search of gold around the turn of the 20th century, the Iditarod Trail - for which the race was christened - served as the primary artery for ferrying mail and supplies. Given the frigid conditions, the route was often impassable except by dog sleds. (See pictures of the Iditarod...