Word: scholar
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...since Sudan's independence in 1956. Africa's largest country is really two: an Islamic, Arabized north and a Christian, animist and African south. The government in Khartoum is headed by Lieut. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but the real power is Hassan al-Turabi, a radical scholar who leads the National Islamic Front and is intent on enforcing Muslim law on the land. On the battlefield, the shifting coalition led by John Garang's SPLA has been successful recently, opening a new front in the northeast. Officially the rebels are fighting for self-rule, but their private agenda...
Bloom is a scholar with far ranging interests,Fineberg said. Had he been a professor at Harvard,Fineberg said Bloom might have taught outside theSchool of Public Health--in the Medical School,for example...
...think of Sinatra? My own higher notions about music were incubated while listening to Jethro Tull albums (whoa--a flute!). Sinatra's body of work, meanwhile, stretches back to the 1930s and is nothing less than "the final statement on pre-rock pop," as Will Friedwald, the invaluable Sinatra scholar, recently wrote of the Songs for Swingin' Lovers! album, released in 1956 and generally considered Sinatra's finest LP. "Something radically different just had to come next," Friedwald continues, "because nothing in the realm of Tin Pan Alley could top this bravura celebration of grown-up love...
...Westinghouse finalist, one of USA Today's Top 20 High School Seniors and a Presidential Scholar, Catherine K. "Cat" Huang '98 sounds like a remarkable, albeit stereotypical, Harvard academic...
...despite a resume that boasts a perfect SAT score, Huang was known among many of her classmates not as a scholar but as a beauty queen...