Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they can thank President Rudenstine--literary scholar turned social engineer...
...Harvard-educated teacher, a second is presently studying at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and her youngest matriculated to Yale College last year...
Most embarrassing moment: Passing out in front of the residential scholar's bedroom at a reception in the afternoon. We had drunk a lot, and they were not impressed...
Kenan Professor of History and of Women's Studies Olwen Hufton has resigned her tenured History Department position, leaving the department with just two senior women faculty and no scholar in women's studies...
...these incidents suggest, Cornel West is one complex dude: brilliant scholar, political activist, committed Christian and soul brother down to the bone. At 40 he has become one of the most insightful and passionate analysts of America's racial dilemma to emerge in recent years, the architect of a post-civil rights philosophy of black liberation that is beginning to be heard across the country. "I think he is one of our most important critical thinkers," says James H. Cone, West's former colleague at New York's Union Theological Seminary. "He has almost singlehandedly helped us see the importance...