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CUNY Blocks Honor for Tony Kushner - NYTimes.com by PATRICK HEALY

In a rare move, the trustees of the City University of New York have voted to shelve an honorary degree that one of its campuses, John Jay College, planned to award to Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Angels in America." The vote on Monday evening came after a CUNY trustee said that Mr. Kushner had disparaged the State of Israel in past comments, a characterization that the writer attacked on W…

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 4:26pm on May 5, 2011 ☆ ⚑

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