I've got to congratulate Mark Ingram for becoming the first Heisman Trophy winner in Alabama history. (Applause.) Mark rushed for over 1, 500 yards last season -- the most ever by a Crimson Tide running back.

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The office of British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose government did not congratulate Kenyatta by name after he was declared the winner, said in a statement that Cameron wrote to Kenyatta on Saturday to note "his strong commitment to the partnership that exists between Kenya and the U.K." The statement said "the Kenyan people had made their sovereign choice" in electing Kenyatta.

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In another context, Robert Solow, a Nobel prize-winner, has noted the tendency of economists to congratulate themselves for retrieving juicy plums that they themselves planted in the pudding.

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