Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coddle Murray. The media has not held Murray fully accountable for his deceit. For example, Murray and The Bell Curve are still described using mild adjectives such as `controversial' (who can imagine neo-Nazi skinheads being referred to as merely controversial?). At worst, Murray is seen as a scholar who got carried away with his work and ended up outside the mainstream of conventional scientific thought...
...debater, in arguing against a separate culture for the deaf, argued for the value of equality. Fair enough. "Separate is inherently unequal," the would-be constitutional scholar declared, his voice trembling importantly. "This is what the Supreme Court decided on the issue of slavery...
DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 89, former Democratic Senator from Arkansas and founder of the international exchange program now known as the Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. A Rhodes scholar, Fulbright was named president of the University of Arkansas at 34, but lost that job soon after his journalist mother wrote an editorial criticizing the state's Governor. From the beginning of his career in Washington, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting, as a freshman Representative in 1943, the resolution that ultimately led to the creation of the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached...
...Harvard visiting scholar's laptop computer, bubble jet printer and computer case were reported stolen from her office in Holyoke Center sometime between Wednesday night and yesterday morning, Police Chief Paul E. Johnson said yesterday...
...computer's hard drive contained notes for an ongoing research project and the finished manuscript of a work on women labor activists, said Dr. Ann Schofield, owner of the computer. Schofield, a visiting scholar from the University of Kansas, is conducting research for the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies...