Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bumbled into a world where everything affects everybody," muses Sir Brian Urquhart, a 40-year veteran of the U.N. who is now a scholar in residence at the Ford Foundation. "We've got to stop looking at the U.N. only in terms of day-to-day emergencies and start seeing it as the only organization that can foster institutions for a global society...
Schimmel and Associate Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani are the only professors at the University who teach courses specifically on South Asian Islamic culture and civilization. In addition, Schimmel teaches Persian and Turkish while Asani is the only scholar who teaches Hindi and Urdu...
...scholar who is a leader in the field, willing to work long hours, will participate in the committees which run the University, and has a deep commitment to research and teaching...
This description might well fit the job requirements for a Harvard scholar, say several professors interviewed recently. Not only must they publish and teach, they say, but there is an expectation that they will actively contribute to the Harvard community. They are often compelled to juggle many tasks and hold several different positions, they...
Schimmel and Asani are the only professors at the University who teach courses specifically on South Asian Islamic culture and civilization. In addition, Schimmel teaches Persian and Turkish while Asani is the only scholar who teaches Hindi and Urdu...