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, people who don't exist) are suitable candidates for Jedi knighthood (perhaps Yoda will enlarge his definition of fear in subsequent episodes).
All the British press speculated Monday on the reason why the British government had intervened to stop Sean Connery's being awarded a knighthood by the queen: Was it his Scottish nationalism, or was it his attitude on violence toward women?
The Times of London Wednesday published a front-page photograph of J. Paul Getty Jr. in top hat and tails outside Buckingham Palace, where he had been invested with a knighthood by the queen.
As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in the London Sunday Mirror reporting claims that Clarke had paid for sex with young boys.
(The Templeton Prize helped its founder win a knighthood in 1987.