Best Actor in a TV Mini-Series or Movie Seen By No One went to Kevin Bacon, without so much as six degrees of nomination.
A key characteristic of the Chicago honorary degree is that nominations are made by the faculty beginning at the level of degree-granting units rather than by the administration.
At Trump Tower on Tuesday night, amid his litany of thank-yous, Mr. Trump demonstrated the degree to which his nomination represented an astonishing break from political precedent.
J.D. degree students are eligible for nomination for Order of the Coif upon graduation if they have earned at least 79 of the 105 credits needed for graduation in graded courses.
Predictably, Democrats viewed the nomination with various degrees of alarm, and the president who chose Kavanaugh cast a long shadow.
"Knowing that the Arctic is the air conditioner of our planet, and that it is breaking down at an unprecedented speed, it seems to me that it would be the business of the world to keep us alive," said Sheila whoseCloutier, whose active involvement as a voice of the Inuit people led her to receive multiple honorary degrees, awards and a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2007.
In contrast with previous years, prime-time Emmy nominations focused, to some degree, on relative newcomers like "Six Feet Under" -- which led with 23 nominations -- and HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
That allowed him to ride the support of the Tea Party and white people without a four-year college degree all the way to the nomination.
To be clear, I believe that the president is entitled to a reasonable degree of deference on his judicial nominations.
Oddly enough, the other "Wild Party," produced by the Manhattan Theater Club, also found a degree of redemption in the 13 nominations it received for Drama Desk awards.
