Word: scholar
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...enrolled at Santa Monica College to repair his undergraduate record and made the dean's list with a 3.7 GPA. He had no trouble holding down a 15-hour- a-week market-research job. He even got into an advanced scholar's program that guaranteed admission to UCLA...
...called this "criminalization" of homosexual acts, the Justices denied gays any but the lowest standing as a potentially disadvantaged group under the 14th Amendment. Since then, activists have achieved limited success with maverick lower courts by citing similar protections in the Fifth Amendment. However, Laurence Tribe, a constitutional- law scholar at Harvard, deems a challenge to the new regulations through equal protection "an uphill fight...
...gain pity point, you've got to cultivate the right image; although Wisconsin candidate Russ Feingold eventually won a Senate seat, his come-from-behind ads, though similar in content to Wellstone's, were far less effective. Feingold, a visibly slick state politician, announced that he was a Rhodes Scholar and then declared himself "the underdog running for the Senate...
Counter said the structure is approximately 5 ft. by 4 ft. "It's very large, done in jet-black granite and gold," Counter said. "It has his face in bas-relief in gold with 'Arthur Robert Jr. Ashe,' then 'Distinguished Athlete. Scholar and Humanitarian...
Frank Zindler, a Columbus, Ohio, biologist and biblical scholar, was furious after seeing the special. He had been asked to appear in a subsequent Sun International production called Ancient Secrets of the Bible II, which aired on CBS in May. Zindler backed out of his taping appointment and fired off a letter to CBS, calling the ark program "an attempt to show that modern science is wrong and Bronze Age mythology is correct." Earlier, Zindler began having qualms about his interview when he received instructions from Sun International revealing that "most of the pro-con arguments are pre-scripted...