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Honorary (a k a "lifetime achievement" or "deathbed") Oscars are typically consolation prizes, given to people whose work was overlooked in its time--such as Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Federico Fellini, and Stanley Donen, none of whom ever won a real Oscar.
Hoover's agents received special commendations for such petty deeds as getting Marquette University to withdraw an honorary doctorate it had planned to award King.
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).
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is an honorary member.
The other big story in Italy was the visit of President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, the first by an Iranian leader to the West since 1979, which was soured by the coincidental, simultaneous presence in the country of Salman Rushdie, the British writer condemned to death 10 years ago by Ayatollah Khomeini for allegedly blaspheming against the Muslim religion in his book The Satanic Verses . While Khatami was in Rome, Rushdie was in Turin receiving an honorary degree from the university there, to the embarrassment and anger of the Italian government, which had not been informed.