Word: johnses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Underlying the disputes is a growing divergence of the interests of the two groups, reinforced by mutual suspicion. Black and Hispanic leaders, says Alejandro Portes, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, "see everything as a zero-sum game. If blacks get something, Latinos lose something, and vice versa." Many African...
And yet those who know Kessler invariably comment on his more human side. Everyone has a Hallmark-card story about him. It usually involves some very sick child and the extra effort Kessler went to in order to make life a little better. As a resident at Johns Hopkins, he...
"We do put China in a special category," says Harry Harding, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "The need is for a realistic relationship, but both sides want romance." This romanticism is rooted "in our history, in the missionary presence, the traders," says Doak Barnett, professor emeritus...
Chave, who teaches Literature and Arts B-16: "Modern Art and Abstraction" (better known as "Spots and Dots"), filed the grievance in the fall after President Derek C. Bok overrode departmental recommendations and awarded the Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art chair to Johns Hopkins University Professor Yves-Alain Bois.
The five are: Mark A. Kishlansky, a 17th century British historian from the University of Chicago; David Blackbourne, a 19th century social and political German scholar from the University of London, Birkbeck College; Peter J. Gallison '77, a professor of 20th century physics history from Stanford University; and Michael McCormick...