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...this was bipartisanship," Barney Frank sputtered after Democrats lost yet another vote in the House Judiciary Committee, "the Taliban wins a medal for religious tolerance." But as long as awards are being handed out, Frank should get an Emmy for standing in front of the TV cameras and managing to look so surprised. It didn't take last week's string of straight-party votes--on everything from which evidence to release to the ground rules for impeachment--to prove what most of Capitol Hill already knows. Clinton's fate lies in the hands of one of the most doggedly...
Comparatively, the Nakanishi Prize is new.Named by the friends and colleagues of KojiNakanishi in honor of the Columbia Universityprofessor, it has been administered for only twoyears. However, it includes a bronze medal, a$3,000 award and travel package for the recipientand a partner. Prize sponsorship rotates annuallybetween the Chemical Society of Japan and theAmerican Chemical Society...
...Nakanishi Prize focuses on work that has affected an academic field internationally. The prize, awarded annually for the last 14 years, is administered by an international committee every year and carries with it a medal and 10 million yen (about...
...Kristallnacht, at a dinner at the residence of the American ambassador in Berlin, Hermann Goring surprised everyone by decorating Lindbergh--"by order of der Fuhrer"--with the Service Cross of the German Eagle, a golden cross with four small swastikas. Inexplicably, Lindbergh refused, then and later, to return the medal--as if to do so would be discourteous...
...Monday morning. Republicans, naturally, want to convict the President in the court of public opinion, and Democrats -- well, Democrats would obviously like this whole thing to go back in the vault. Consequence: the statesmanship charade is off. "If this is bipartisanship, then the Taliban wins the medal for religious tolerance," Frank quipped after the vote. Hyde answered that the mostly party-line votes were "civil." "Yeah," retorted Frank. "Very civil and very partisan...