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...Pakistani city of Quetta, where father and son had both fled from the Taliban. The killing is presumed to have been carried out by Taliban agents. All but one of Karzai's siblings--he has six brothers and one sister--have built successful careers in business or academia in the U.S. Two Maryland-based brothers own Afghan restaurants in three states--named Helmand, after the province just west of Kandahar. Though he has visited the U.S. several times, on occasion meeting with high-ranking CIA, State Department and other government officials, Karzai has remained mostly in Afghanistan or in exile...
Christian faith has long endured the chipping away at authority that is the hallmark of modern academia. But church and campus have never seemed as estranged as they have since the advent of postmodernism, the notion that there is no universal truth, merely competing "narratives" jockeying eternally for supremacy. That is, until 1990, when a young British professor named John Milbank pioneered what The Chronicle of Higher Education has suggested may be the "biggest development in theology since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door...
Chartey’s self-deprecating humor is clearly only part of the act. He hopes next year to write for an independent magazine or get a teaching fellowship. Lemo hopes that academia is in Chartey’s future. “I’d love to see him as a history or a literature professor,” Lemo admits. McCants agrees that her boyfriend will definitely be in the classroom...
Unfortunately, those poor sleeping Losers are often upper-class students, too old to be helped. They have somehow derived from experience that sleep is for beds and academia for the conscious, and now they are firmly set in their ways, a poor example for overzealous, sleep-deprived first-years...
Higonnet says that because it is such a general pressure in academia, the pressure to publish has been “interiorized” at Harvard—it is all part of a day’s work. “There is no question that Harvard expects faculty to do both serious research and teaching...