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...When the Queen made Hanif Kureishi a Commander of the British Empire in 2008, she gave him a medal embossed with the logo: "For God and Empire." "You can't get better than that," the writer quipped at the time. "The only causes are the lost causes - or the nonexistent ones...
...informed American and at worst an IRA sympathizer. Even in today's postconflict Northern Ireland, Kennedy's political allegiances remain a source of controversy. There were outcries from Protestant politicians in March, for example, when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown nominated Kennedy to receive an honorary knighthood from the Queen. (Read "Why Some Brits Don't Want a Sir Ted Kennedy...
...into the realms of trying to assess the behind-the-scenes influence that he exerted, and that's not so easy," says Graham Walker, professor of political history at Queen's University in Belfast. "Ted Kennedy's role in that era was keeping the wilder voices of Irish America in check. There were a lot of headlines in the 1970s about his calls for 'troops out,' but I think as time went on he was a moderating influence, pushing [Irish] Republicans along a political path." (See pictures of the British army withdrawing from Northern Ireland...
...Sreedharan is not the only writer of what he calls "Twiction." Philippa Gregory, author of the best-selling novel The White Queen, is using Twitter to reinterpret her book as a series of tweets from its main character. Penguin has commissioned two 19-year-old University of Chicago students to put together a book titled, Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, to be published later this year with synopses from Shakespeare's works, to the Harry Potter series, to of course, Twilight...
...Soccer coach Bobby Robson, 76, was so revered in England that Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 2002 for his service to the sport, 12 years after he led the nation to its second World Cup semifinal...