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The best-selling novelist would have been the third member of her family to receive an honorary degree from the Catholic university near Philadelphia.
Brinkley has also mounted his thanatic pulpit to tell and retell anecdotes about Kennedy's decency: how he declined an honorary doctorate because he felt he didn't deserve it, how his racial compassion sparked him to visit Mike Tyson in jail.
Jefferson's descendants 1) invited some of Hemings' descendants to attend an exclusive family gathering (the "Monticello Association"); 2) voted down a motion to eject the Hemings clan from the gathering; 3) voted down a proposal to make the Hemingses honorary members immediately; and 4) appointed a committee to decide whether the Hemingses are real descendants or impostors (despite demonstrated genetic links).
Mao and Pol Pot have a certain claim to being called honorary Westerners, given who their teachers were.
By a strange coincidence, Mitchell went to Buckingham Palace Thursday to receive an honorary knighthood from the queen for his role in brokering the agreement.