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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Adventures in Headline Writing!

I saw this one and knew something was amiss--Dole Awarded Medal of Honor at Dedication

Bob Dole Awarded Medal of Honor on 80th Birthday at Dedication of Dole Institute
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- For his 80th birthday Tuesday, Bob Dole got a U.S. senator and Medal of Honor recipient to sing to him — and received a political institute bearing his name.

The dedication of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, though, focused more on Dole's fellow World War II veterans, scores of whom were at the ceremony.

Dole called Medal of Honor recipient Jack Lucas to the stage from his front-row seat and introduced the veteran to former President Carter.

At the end of the ceremony, Lucas, 75, of Hattiesburg, Miss., and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., led a crowd of about 6,000 in singing "Happy Birthday" to Dole. [...]
"Happy Birthday" is nice, but it's not quite a Medal of Honor.


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