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PHOTO OF THE DAY: President Obama awards the 2010 National Medal of Arts to American poet Donald Hall during a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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The Mayor of Budapest has declared Elvis Presley a posthumous honorary citizen of the city, to recognize the solidarity Elvis showed Hungary on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.
Check out Elvis’ performance of Peace in the Valley on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Quincey Jones gets the National Medal of Arts
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Pulau Geleang, Kepulauan Karimunjawa, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia.
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Libyan rebel.
From Libya With Love:
In February 2007 Harvard professor Joseph Nye Jr., who developed the concept of “soft power”, visited Libya and sipped tea for three hours with Muammar Qaddafi. Months later, he penned an elegant description of the chat for The New Republic, reporting that Qaddafi had been interested in discussing “direct democracy.”
Just one problem: Nye traveled to Libya as a paid consultant for the Monitor Group, a firm that at the time had a $3 million/year contract with the Qaddafi regime. MoJo’s David Corn and Siddhartha Mahanta have the scoop on how a US firm used American academics to rehab a dictator’s image. Read the full story here.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt/Released
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