Word: academia
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...President. It helps to be a warrior, for one thing. It helps to be able to take a punch and deliver one - even, sometimes, a sucker punch. A certain familiarity with life as it is lived by normal Americans is useful; a distance from the élite precincts of academia, where unrepentant terrorists can sip wine in good company, is essential. Hillary Clinton has learned these lessons the hard way; Barack Obama thinks they are "the wrong lessons." The nomination is, obviously, his to lose. But the presidency will not be won if he doesn't learn that the only...
...confines of the law. Although copyright law leads to hundred-dollar course packs that are costly to universities and students, intellectual property law ensures the ongoing production of the journals and scholarly work that are necessary to our studies. Scholarly journals could not survive without these copyright costs, and academia would suffer a loss without the existence of these journals, which provide a source for current and relevant work. Georgia State University is certainly not the first school to digitize course packs at the expense of copyright, but regardless of how many schools are already doing this, these universities need...
...leadership. By the time we got into college, we had amassed enough experiences to fill several personal essays. But now, at the brink of full economic adulthood, we find ourselves in a bind. College is the last time we will have three months to ourselves, unless we go into academia. And accustomed to such concepts as “Spring Break” and “Summer Vacation,” we forget that, once we graduate, the seasons will be things we glimpse in passing through our neighbor’s cubicle window. Of course, when...
...among them, that he was “very Swedish.”Having left his homeland for a Harvard professorship in 1954, the New Testament scholar made his mark on the Harvard community and beyond with an understanding spirit that sought continuity in faith and integration in academia, said Divinity School professor Harvey Cox. “He was sort of a democratic socialist of the Swedish style—that was an integral part of his personality,” Cox said. Stendahl passed away last week at the age of 86, after several years of declining health...
...Because he was a writer and not entirely closed in the field of academia before he was a scientist, I feel like he’s able to think about and see things in a way that people who all share the same background can’t,” says Killingsworth, the second-year graduate student...