Word: expertly
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Professor of Afro-American Studies and of African American Religious History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is a top scholar of African-American religious history and thought. She is an expert in feminist history and the author of a well-received book on the women's movement in the Black Baptist Church...
...Indonesian Homo erectus fossils. The leaders of the team that did the analysis, Carl Swisher and Garniss Curtis of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, are acknowledged masters of the art of geochronology, the dating of things from the past. Says Alan Walker of Johns Hopkins University, an expert on early humans: "The IHO is doing world-class stuff." There is always the chance that the bones Swisher and Curtis studied were shifted out of their original position by geologic forces or erosion, ending up in sediments much older than the fossils themselves. But that's probably...
...committee members were surprised. Even the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dennis DeConcini, who says he likes Woolsey better than any of his predecessors, finds him "so damn hardheaded" about the budget. The Arizona Democrat does not believe that Woolsey, a savvy Washington lawyer and defense expert, has overlooked the reduction in the Soviet threat. Rather, he suspects that Woolsey's scrappy toughness on the intelligence budget is a move to rally the agency's spies, who tend to resent outsiders, behind his leadership and the changes he has to make...
...launched a probe of Ickes' law firm's work for a union alleged to have ties to organized crime. When federal officials cleared his name last fall, the Clintons pressed him to run the struggling health-care effort. "I was not brought down here as a legislative or substantive expert. I'm here because some people think I know how to pull an organization together," he said last week...
...needs to show his people they are getting something out of the peace process -- and that Jerusalem must make some concessions to help. "Paradoxically ((the massacre)) may hasten the peace process because Israel will be under pressure to finish the negotiations as soon as possible," says Ariel Merari, an expert on political violence. To get an accord, he predicts, Israel will "have to make more concessions than it meant to make...