Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friends and colleagues remembered McMahon as a scholar devoted to his work and students...
...bard's new vogue to resplash their thesis: Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare; Edward de Vere did. What's more, an ivory-tower conspiracy is keeping their views from being taken seriously. "We're into something called bardgate," says Peter Dickson, a CIA official turned revisionist Elizabethan scholar. Shakespeare is not a crook, reply the defenders of the glover's son from Warwickshire. And each side casts the other as devils citing Hamlet to their own purposes...
While we would like to believe Berkowitz's just cause will prevail, realism checks our optimism. Once again, it seems, the tenure system will short-change both a talented scholar and this University's student-body...
...unique perspective on his field of study. He is the only instructor at this school who has offered courses which provide a critical perspective on postmodernist theory. The name of Michel Foucault abounds on syllabi across the College and is universally lauded by our faculty as a brilliant scholar. Students seeking a second opinion would have nowhere to go if it were not for the free-thinking Berkowitz. Those seeking an example of the importance of ideological diversity need look no further...
...block," and Israel reacted without alarm. Many analysts regard the leadership turmoil in Jordan as less worrisome than that in other Arab states, where aging Kings and Presidents may soon give way to unfamiliar new rulers. Jordan's transition, says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based Middle East scholar, is only "the first step in a long process that will be going on for the next decade and will affect peace, energy and stability in the region...