Word: scholar
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...women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things better, so that the problem is better understood and more adapted to reality." Martini is an eminent New Testament scholar who reads or speaks 11 languages and has written nearly 50 books...
...urging governments and private investors to withhold the $3 billion in foreign loans and investments that the Chinese are seeking to help build the $30 billion dam. Says Dai Qing, a Chinese opponent of the dam who won a Goldman Environmental Prize last year, and is now a visiting scholar at the Australian National University: "I hope that people all over the world who love the environment and who love China will band together to stop this disastrous project...
...adherents of this fashion-able dogma simply dismiss reasonable arguments made by conservatives such as Yale Classics scholar Donald Kagan...
During the course of his speech, Professor Anthony Martin stated that the first reference to Africans being created innately inferior and for the service of other people is in the Babylonian Talmud. He quoted several doctoral dissertations, one by a Jewish scholar, that supported his claim that the Babylonian Talmud exists as the first text to place a racial component on the cursing of Ham and is the first instance of a work bigoted against Africans in the European tradition. At no time during his address to the participants of the teach-in did Professor Martin make reference...
...breathtaking scholar," Schor said yesterday. "One of the things I personally like is that she's looking at the history of everyday life from the point of view of a household, which is very refreshing and interesting.... It also seems quite clear to me she's a fabulous teacher. That's very important...