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...break with tradition, Harvard awarded Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, the liberal lion who has represented Massachusetts for nearly a half century and was diagnosed with brain tumor in May, with an honorary degree at a special ceremony in December. Though the University normally dispenses honorariums during Commencement, it delayed Kennedy's award because his medical treatment prevented him from appearing at the spring ceremony. The December event drew national press and political luminaries—including Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Mass. Senator John F. Kerry?...
...team is. I just need to drive and pass it out and we have so many shooters,” Lin said. “[Freshman] Peter Boehm has been playing out of his mind recently. So it’s just trying to do what I can, nothing special.” In his fourth game in the starting lineup, Boehm continued to impress, scoring 14 points in 22 minutes. Boehm, who earned his second straight Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors for his performance, has finished in double figures in every game he has started...
...making a mockery of two particularly French traits: a penchant for protesting whatever navel special-interest groups happen to be gazing into, and the glorification of the chic, well-heeled soirée as an art form," says Marie-Gabriel, who in 2005 co-founded the Opposition Front to the New Year: National Organization Committee, devising the group's name exclusively so that its French acronym, Fonacon, would be homonymous with the phrase "telephone an a__hole." (Its year-end protest slogans are equally risible, including last year's motto, "It Was Better Right Now.") Fonacon and its futile protest...
Tallyho! Fares to London are on sale. British Airways is taking $250 off any round-trip World Traveller Plus ticket to London, and $100 off any ticket worldwide. Virgin Atlantic has special fares in economy class from now through March 22, 2009, with $221 one-way fares to London from Chicago, and $196 one-way from New York City. (See 10 things to do in London...
...Still, the organization she heads does hope for one form of special treatment. Spain's civil code requires potential citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to both the constitution and the King. But the Descendants of Exiles Association sees the latter requirement as "ideological coercion" that restricts freedom of expression, and is asking that it not apply to the citizenship process. "After all," she says, "our parents and grandparents were Republicans...