Word: scholar
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Maraniss lets the story linger long, perhaps too long, over Clinton's days as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. But it is an important stop. There we see Clinton's boyhood habit of telling people what they want to hear turn into a propensity for deceit and lies. Clinton seems to struggle genuinely with his conscience, but ultimately he ducks a choice. He is drafted, but pulls strings to get into a ROTC program in which he has no intention of actually participating...
...example of Murray's willful attempt to mislead readers will suffice. Much of his data about a racial hierarchy of intelligence is taken from the work of Richard Lynn, who is described as a "leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." In fact, Lynn is a white supremacist who has advocated the extermination of 'inferior' people and claimed that only whites and Asians have made major contributions to civilization...
...second ballot, Wayne "Rusty" Drugan Jr., treasurer of the Republican city committee, a Rhodes scholar and a resident of Cambridge's 7th ward, where Samp also lives, defeated four other challengers to gain the committee's top endorsement...
With the appointment last week of University of Pennsylvania legal scholar Elizabeth Warren, however, Harvard Law School appears to be giving cause for celebration. Warren will become the tenth female professor out of 69 law school faculty members, making women about 15 percent of the school's faculty. Compared to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where women make up slightly over 10 percent of the total faculty, the law school is not doing that badly. Fifteen percent may not be much, but it certainly represents some progress...
...Rudenstine is to fulfill his duties as president, transcending the role of supreme fundraiser (ever heard of Benno Schmidt?), he must recognize that the presidency also includes the roles of scholar and academic. If he hopes to successfully carry out his many duties, Rudenstine must give himself time to rest and reflect every now and then. We wish him well as he embarks upon the second part of his term...