Word: academician
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...Benedict XVI is not just an academician anymore but the political figurehead of the Roman Catholic Church. He made quite a clumsy statement at a time when the tension between civilizations is growing. I disagree with any attempt to draw a line between Islam and Christianity by trying to prove that the former is more "irrational" than the latter. Christianity's violent past shows that such a claim can't be justified. Andriy Sukhodub Dundee, Scotland...
...decided to focus on gathering student input during the next month. Before choosing a discrete list of candidates, the search committee wants to know what principles should guide their selection, and student input will play a key role in formulating those principles. Should our new president be an academician or a statesman? A bold and unilateral visionary or a consensus builder? A Harvard graduate or professor or someone from the outside? Or a specific candidate that you may have in mind? Now is the time that we as students—everyone from seasoned campus leaders to eager freshmen?...
...point; otherwise, it is not required. Pope Benedict XVI quoted a 14th century Byzantine Emperor to support his argument about Islam. Now the Pope is backtracking, but he has shown his real self: he is a latter-day Crusader. Farrukh Seer Lahore, Pakistan Benedict XVI is not just an academician anymore but the political figurehead of the Roman Catholic Church. He made quite a clumsy statement at a time when the tension between civilizations is growing. I disagree with any attempt to draw a line between Islam and Christianity by trying to prove that the former is more "irrational" than...
...still quite mediocre) French, I found myself with a flowery endorsement by the secrétaire perpétuel of the Academy of Moral Sciences. I was soon part of a world of emerald tapestries, of rooms where one can admire the handcrafted handles of the swords that each academician receives upon election. Suddenly, the much-vaunted French “defense of high culture” gained new meaning.One visit to a prestigious and well-guarded institute hardly constitutes a new form of travel, and in fact the Academy was not my only coup. More prosaically, in the manuscripts...
Ruth has astounded the faculty at St. Hugh's with the range of her intellect and the ease with which she masters subjects. In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made. She raced through Oxford's three-year course in two years. Her test papers were spun out with little apparent need to pause over the most puzzling problems. "I think while I write," she explains with a shrug. Mathematics appeals to her spirit of discovery, she says...