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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nelson Mandela was the last person to be similarly honored with such a ceremony outside of Commencement. The South African leader was honored in Sept...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ted Kennedy To Receive Honorary Degree from Harvard | 11/9/2008 | See Source »

...breath of fresh air and possibility. His victory arouses widespread relief and positive energy more than cultish character worship. He’s not going to save the world. But he’s going to inspire each of us to do as much as we can. Perhaps Nelson Mandela put it best in his own letter to the President-elect. The world’s secular saint pointed to Obama’s personal narrative as proof that “no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Obama for Mankind | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...limousine, en route to dinner with the jurist at the Charles Hotel. “After the speech I was talking to this gentleman, you know, just being polite,” he says, smiling at the memory. “Turns out, the gentleman was Nelson Shanks. He’s probably a nobody to you, but he’s actually Justice Scalia’s portrait artist.” Apparently impressed, the painter had extended a dinner invitation to the eager freshman...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Harvard Extension | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Garrett G.D. Nelson ’09, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator in Cabot House...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Vox Barbara | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...think it was the weekend after the campaign kind of fell apart, when John Weaver left and Terry [Nelson] left. Emotions were raw. He was obviously not happy with the way things had gone. He went up to New Hampshire to keep it moving, to give a speech. It was the famous flight where he and Jimmy [McCain, his youngest son] and I were on Southwest Airlines, carrying our own bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit Interview with Top McCain Aide Mark Salter | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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