Word: medal
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Reveal denied that Singer's appointment was related to this spring's controversy over whether U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III should receive a K-School 50th anniversary medal for distinguished public service...
Former Director of Public Relations Naomi Chase transferred to another department within the Kennedy School after the controversy, during which students and faculty protested that Meese was unqualified for a public service award. Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 eventually apologized for his decision to award the medal to Meese and said that part of the misunderstanding surrounding the medal was a press secretary "learning her job by fire...
...addition, senior administrators should not make unilateral decisions that affect us all as was the case with the Meese medal, when Allison ignored a faculty committee already set up to award the medals, and with the CUE guide, when Dean K. Whitla overruled the student editors...
...third controversy broke out just before Spring Break. Lawyers and public servants around the nation had a hearty laugh when Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 announced that his school of government would award Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for distinguished public service. Allison eventually was forced to apologize to students and faculty at the school for his unilateral decision to honor Meese, who quite clearly does not merit such an award...
This is the one that if an oarsman wins, he stands on the dock sipping champagne, as up to fifteen competitors who just weren't as fast heap their racing shirts on his shoulder. You even get a gold medal...