Kennedy, whose brother President John F. Kennedy was inducted into the academy in 1955, called the induction "a great honor."
Always coming in second, it must have an effect on the way you see the world.
Posted on 10/06/2002 2:59:02 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
Oct 6, 2002
The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, novelist Chinua Achebe and radio commentator Daniel Schorr were among more than 100 politicians, scientists, authors and academics inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kennedy, whose brother President John F. Kennedy was inducted into the academy in 1955, called the induction "a great honor."
He also used the opportunity to criticize President Bush's plans for military action against Iraq, calling the administration's doctrine of preventive war "21st century American imperialism."
"Might does not make right. America cannot write its own rules for the modern world. To attempt to do so would be unilateralism run amok. It would antagonize our closest allies whose support we need," Kennedy, D-Mass., said.
In all, the academy's new class includes 177 fellows and 33 foreign honorary members. The fellows have made their careers in the United States, while foreign honorary members have worked at institutions in foreign countries.
Schorr, a senior news analyst for National Public Radio, took the media to task in his comments, saying he has "come to mourn the way my beloved profession has become progressively oriented to entertainment, scandal and profit."
"Sometimes it seems to me that our whole profession is crowded into a small corner of a vast entertainment stage, obliged to borrow the tools and values of entertainment and live by its standards in the grim struggle for ratings," he said.
Also inducted at the ceremony Saturday at Harvard University were former New Hampshire Republican Sen. Warren B. Rudman, U.S. Rep. Amory Houghton, R-N.Y., astrophysicist Edward W. Kolb and Philip S. Khoury, Dean of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The inductees may contribute to projects and publications published by the academy, but are not obligated to do so.
John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholars founded the academy in 1780 to cultivate art and science.
AP-ES-10-06-02 1735EDT
... calling the administration's doctrine of preventive war "21st century American imperialism" ...He says it like it's a bad thing.
Kennedy, whose brother President John F. Kennedy was inducted into the academy in 1955, called the induction "a great honor."
Always coming in second, it must have an effect on the way you see the world.
No thanks, Ted...I'd rather you take another short drop off a narrow bridge....whatta miserable, vomitous mass.
He's a wart-hog faced buffoon.
Did I mention that I look upon him with disfavor?
I may have a brain THIS SMALL, but I know just enough to be dangerous...
You'd figure by now anybody with any smarts would realise there is no sense making friends with the Liberal Left. It makes the same type of sense as trying to make a house pet out of a rattlesnake.
But, I guess some people are just slow learners.
"I've tried to work side by side with the Democrats in the Senate for the American people...but time and time again, promises would be broken and the nutty, far left wing would rear it's ugly head and...."
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