Word: academia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...regaled his classmates with stories of his rise from humble origins—his family did not own a telephone until he was in high school—to the apex of Ivy League academia...
Before entering academia, Blackwell had dedicated 22 years to the Foreign Service and the U.S. State Department...
...blends together old-school academia and new-school pop culture, invoking Socrates, Herman Melville and Snoop Dogg to advocate critical examination first of one self, and eventually of one’s government...
...John F. Kennedy] in 1960, so I thought it’d be good to return,” Parker said. Since that first campaign—at the tender age of 13—Parker has worked on 13 presidential campaigns in all. Twelve years in academia didn’t blunt his political edge either. He led Greenpeace and co-founded Mother Jones, a magazine devoted to investigative journalism...
...this way, immoral and perfidious even. But to say so would be a massive act of hypocrisy, because this country has gained every time another nation or region has engaged in spectacular acts of ideologically-motivated stupidity. Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Europe were a great boon to American academia, and the Pilgrims themselves moved here because continental Europe wasn’t working out for them. Leaving messed-up nations is not just an American tradition—it is the pragmatic instinct upon which this country developed...