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...graduate of Princeton University, summa cum laude, Bator was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard in 1951 and 1952. He received an M.A. in history from the University...
...admissions and financial aids for 13 years. In his new post, Jewett will oversee all non-academic programs and activities for the College's 6500 undergraduates. He will also become chairman of the Administrative Board, the Committee on College Life and the Committee on House Life. Jewett graduated magna cum laudeand Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School...
...group seems more churchly than the Koreans, devout Protestants in Asia and now devout Protestants in New York. In Elmhurst alone they have established at least four churches. The Indian population in Queens, settled for decades and now 25,000 strong, has an elaborate cultural center-cum-Hindu temple in Flushing, complete with domes and sculpted elephants. One day in May, Kari and Shanthi Naidu were worshiping at the altar of Sri Mahalaksai, a god of well- being. They had paid a Hindu priest $5 for a prayer service. "Quite frankly," says Kari Naidu, "I did not become a believer...
...1970s, when a group of Houston youths were taught such modern approaches to the Bible at Baptist Baylor University in Waco, Texas, they returned home and reported the information to Paul Pressler, their former Sunday school teacher. Pressler, a state appeals court judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner...
...magna cum laude Government concentrator who calls himself a liberal socialist, Huang Yasheng wrote his thesis on agrarian reforms in rural China. Its conclusions took a surprisingly critical view of the communist regime: Huang found that economic changes did not bring about the social progress that the government had sought...