Playwright Kushner gets NY honor after Israel flap
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Urging graduates to repair "the public conversation" and rescue society from "grim careerists and ideologues," playwright Tony Kushner on Friday accepted the honorary degree that had briefly been withheld by the city's university system after a trustee accused him of being anti-Israel.
Alluding to the controversy, Kushner said that the honorary doctorate would remain "the most interesting one I had to work hardest to get" and praised the forces that led to his receiving the honor. (AP)
