Word: experts
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...department has just concluded a national search to fill a junior post in American history. After reviewing more than 200 applications, the department extended an offer to Ronald W. Yanowsky, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert in late 19th and early 20th century social and cultural history...
...James Hankins, the department's senior tutor and an expert in the Renaissance, was recently promoted to a full professor of history...
...area that remains unstaffed is 20th century American political history. For 10 years, Harvard has lacked a senior scholar in that field, since Warren Professor of American History Frank B. Freidel Jr., an expert on the New Deal, left for the University of Washington. And course offerings in that field have been sparse since Brinkley's departure...
Critics called the decision barbaric. "Would you allow an 18-year-old boy who stole a car three times to say, 'Cut my hands off so I won't do it again?' " asked Philip Reilly, an expert on sterilization. Said Harvard professor Laurence Tribe: "Some people would say that sexuality should not be a subject for plea bargaining, that it's inherently coercive...
...could soon be doubly useful: it would provide an international cover for a politically risky increase in help from the U.S. and an impersonal institution that can insist on austerity in ways less damaging to Russian pride than peremptory instructions from teams of Western experts. In fact, many analysts urge that whatever form aid takes, it should neither humiliate Russians nor imply that they are no longer responsible for their own successes and failures. Michel Tatu, Le Monde's veteran Soviet expert, says, "The role of the West should not be overstated. In the end, it is the Russians...