Knighthood

Disgraced Bank's Ex-CEO Stripped Of Knighthood

Reuters | Posted 04.01.2012

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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Britain took the rare step of stripping former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Fred Goodwin of his knighthoo...

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Apple's Design Chief Receives Major Honor

Posted 12.30.2011

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iPhone. iPad. iKnight. Jonathan Ive, Apple's head of design, has been honored with a knighthood in the United Kingdom. Per BBC News, Ive, a nati...

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Playing Politics With Presidential Medals

David Macaray | Posted 02.18.2012

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David Macaray

The day will surely come when some future president awards the Medal of Freedom to George W. Bush. It will happen. But why on earth would an ex-president need the same medal that Richard Petty got?

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French Tweets Lead To Knighthood

AP | Posted 11.15.2011

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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A University of South Carolina professor who encourages her students to use Twitter in French class will be getting honorary knighth...

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A Nobel Prize for IVF Pioneer Dr. Robert Edwards? Dynamite!

Beth Kohl | Posted 11.17.2011

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Beth Kohl

Thirty-two years after the birth of Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, Dr. Robert Edwards -- the man who pioneered in vitro fertilization -- was finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

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Sir Salman Rushdie on the So-Called-Mosque Debate: "This Stuff Is Stupid"

Michael Ames | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Ames

"I am not a fan of burning books, and I have some experience in this," he said. "We cannot burn books, no matter how much you dislike the book. I would not, for instance, burn the books of Dan Brown."

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A Medieval Solution for a Medieval Screw-up

William Dietrich | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Dietrich

We need an order of knightly business people today, an outside organization in our democratic capitalist system which has credibility, morality, and higher purpose.

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Ted Kennedy To Receive Honorary British Knighthood

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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Veteran US senator Ted Kennedy, 77, is to be awarded an honorary knighthood. The Queen has agreed the honour for the brother of former US president J...

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