That is what apparently happened after John Jay College, part of the City University of New York system, decided to confer an honorary degree on one of the world's greatest playwrights, Tony Kushner.
So much for the accuracy and impartiality of the authors of The Times' Editors' Note, who appear either to have developed a severe case of institutional amnesia, or decided to confer the presumption of innocence upon cellphone radiation, as the newspaper did upon asbestos for an entire decade after the mineral had been shown to be the most important industrial carcinogen in the world.
Fauxlivia sees a surveillance shot of Olivia and Walter and decides to confer with Walternate about the doppelgängers.
Journalists vied to get invited onto "Meet" as a way to confer A-list status.
For some of them, a little starvation seems to confer a survival advantage.
This June, the city, responding to a request from the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, decided to consider conferring landmark status.
We decided to select the most significant p value for any locus within a gene as a methylation change at an individual locus has the potential to confer an effect on gene function.
Congress had also decided to send a three-man delegation to confer with Lord Howe — John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Rutledge.
The portability and multiple capabilities of smartphones, or similar digital devices, has conferred increasing agency on some patients, who have decided to seek a more tangible record of their healthcare encounters.
People who have conferred with the Justice Department lawyers said it was unclear whether they had decided to use a grid and, if so, how extensively.
