Word: scholar
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...tomb. Never mind that archaeologists have searched for the tomb for years without success. And forget that Maury Kravitz, 62, is a commodities trader and lawyer with no professional training in archaeology. His 34-year obsession with the Mongol leader has made him probably the best-informed amateur Genghis scholar in the world. About eight years ago, he found (he won't say where) what he thinks is a crucial reference to the burial site...
...statement, Kennedy School Dean and University Provost Albert Carnesale called Grindle "an outstanding scholar, teacher and citizen" of the school...
...certainly never automatic that a professor who has relinquished tenure will be invited to return, but considering what a superb, outstanding scholar Professor Nye is, I personally would strongly support him," Pharr said...
...years the standard reference work on Joplin's life was They All Played Ragtime by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis, a 1950 study based largely on interviews with surviving original ragtimers. But oral history is necessarily flawed, since recollection fails with the passage of years, and a more scholarly, rigorous treatment was called for. Now comes King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era by ragtime scholar Edward A. Berlin (Oxford; 334 pages; $25); it immediately supplants the earlier book as the most accurate and informative Joplin biography...
...Ralph Fiennes), trying to pick up a few dollars to supplement his instructor's pay at Columbia University. He was a godsend. Not just any old Wasp, but the scion of arguably the nation's most distinguished literary family. His father was Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer- prizewinning poet and scholar; his mother was a novelist; his uncle, a famous historian; his aunt, editor of a respected book-review journal...