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...description of the wider benefits of ousting Saddam by touting his Thursday meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai as Exhibit A in the case for regime-change. The urbane, moderate Karzai personifies the changes wrought in Afghanistan by the U.S. ouster of the Taliban - in which a brutal, mediaevalist regime was destroyed, allowing Afghans to hope for an end to more than two decades of civil...
Professor Merk well-known to undergraduates as part of the Schlesinger-Merk-Buck team which teaches History 5, is the successor of two of the University's most famous historians. His immediate predecessors were the mediaevalist Charles Homer Haskins '08 and Roger Bigelow Merriman...
...cooperation of a notable body of 26 international scholars who will act in an advisory capacity. The list includes many of the leading authorities of the world, among whom are Dr. Max Friedlander, a German authority on prints and North European painting, Professor Adolp Goldschmidt, an eminent German Mediaevalist who is to give a series of lectures at Harvard next fall, M. R. James, a well-known English mediaevalist, Dr. A. Warburg, of the University of Hamburg, Paul Pelliot, a French Orientalist. Roger Fry, British author and authority on modern painting, Bernnard Berenson, an eminent authority in the field...
...development by the imposition of mechanical exercises and bootless reports. Discussion in this happy family would replace lectures; and idea-killing assignments would be unknown. The difficulty, of course, has been in finding the earnest students. But now, university education appears to be returning to its sources, and the mediaevalist recalls the scenes in Bologna when the students at the University drove their unpopular instructors from the gates of the town...
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