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...Most definitely not, has been the answer of many bullfighting insiders ever since Spanish Culture Minister César Antonio Molina announced on Feb. 27 that this year's prestigious Fine Arts medal for bullfighting would go to Francisco Rivera Ordóñez. The 35-year-old matador has killed more than 2,000 bulls, but because of both his family ties - he descends from Spain's most important bullfighting dynasty and was briefly married to the Duchess of Alba's daughter - and his abundant good looks, Rivera is as well-known for his presence in the gossip rags...
...upset that his son admitted to committing the crimes." "Other than that," reported Kim, "nothing new has taken place." He planned a return to Ras al-Koor to search the young man's house again. He has also decided to put Pfc. Maqi up for a medal...
...Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, Yuri Grigorovich, to come perform at the star-studded Moscow International Ballet Competition Gala Performance. After winning a Scholarship at the famed Prix de Lausanne, she went on to study at the School of American Ballet (SAB) and win her own gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition eight years later. After joining the Boston Ballet in 2003, Kuranaga has risen up through the ranks and was last week promoted to the company’s highest rank, Principal, in the midst of its “Jewels?...
...book, and said he thinks it is very deserving of the award. “I can think of only two other [books]—out of thousands—which compare,†Johnson said. With this award, Faust will receive $50,000, an engraved medal, and the title ‘American Historian Laureate.’ President Faust will receive the award at a ceremony April 3. This is the fourth year that the Society, New York City’s oldest museum and research library, has given out the award. The selection process begins...
Early day motions rarely are submitted to debate, and in any case, Britain's monarch has already granted the award to Kennedy. The only remaining way to block the honorific, which Kennedy has accepted but not yet collected in the material form of a medal from the British ambassador to Washington, would be for Congress to intervene. Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states that "no person holding any office of profit or trust... shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince...