Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never pretended to be a great scholar, but on almost every topic of mutual interest that came up, she just happened to know the right thing to read. When my wife and I were leaving for India for the first time, she made no promises. But within a couple of hours a shopping bag was brought round to * our door. In it were more than 200 photocopied passages from rare 19th century books on India, each marked in her own hand...
Boardman Professor of Fine Arts John K.G. Shearman, a scholar of Renaissance art, has been named a University professor...
Rudenstine also lauded Shearman's teachingabilities, calling the art scholar's skills inboth the lecture hall and the seminar room"masterful...
...North, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the leader of the South, Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh, bickered incessantly. They refused to completely merge their armies or their economies, and never built up any trust. "The power plays got to a point of no return," says Judith Kipper, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution...
China gave permission for a legal scholar to travel to the U.S. and paroled another dissident held since 1990 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government. Both moves appeared to be part of an effort to persuade President Clinton to renew China's most-favored-nation trade status. At the same time, China's legislature announced 18 new grounds for detaining and arresting dissidents, and at least six people were detained in Shanghai...