Word: scholar
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Hatfield, a scholar of modern German fiction, earned an A.B. degree from Harvard...
...Republican Thomas Somer to capture the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Mel Reynolds, who resigned after being convicted of sexual misconduct. "Although it is clear that he won the post largely because of his famous name, and he isn't as well credentialed as Reynolds who was a Rhodes Scholar, he can still really help a district that is in horrible condition," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff. "The fact that his name is Jesse Jackson will enable him to get the attention of the press and put some focus on his district's problems, which are the classic urban...
...elated to have been chosen a Marshall Scholar, to belong to this eminent society of young scholars," said Rascoff, a Lowell House resident and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations concentrator...
Sancton's great-grandfather emigrated in the 1860s from Bordeaux to New Orleans, where Sancton grew up. Since first visiting France in 1971, Sancton has spent more than half his adult life in Paris--in the '70s as a Rhodes scholar writing his doctoral thesis ("America in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871"), in the '80s as a TIME correspondent and since January 1993 as the head of our bureau. Helping deepen his Gallic roots are his French wife Sylvaine and their two binational children, Sandy, 26, and Julian...
...point of all this is that sports is the most fertile ground for the underdog. While Bill Clinton had to shamelessly network for his whole life to become President (he says that after each day he spent in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he would write down the name of and an amusing anecdote about everyone he met), Bobby Cremins just had to give it his all on he court (he was a schoolyard legend who got a college scholarship to play Basketball) and on the sidelines. Bobby Cremins' triumph is unassailable...