Word: scholar
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Both scholarships pay for the scholar's travel expenses, health care, tuition, books, as well as grant a personal stipend. While Bohlmann said that both fellowships "are names that will open doors," he said that "everyone who has been offered two takes the Rhodes...
Administration officials chalk up the opposition to overheated speculation on all sides, and they're partly right. But the White House has made miscues of its own. Early supporters of the national-test plan, like Finn and Brookings Institution scholar Diane Ravitch, have deserted the President because the tests were developed through the politically appointed Department of Education rather than by a nonpartisan body like the independent National Assessment Governing Board. "It's wrong to have a new national test every time a new President is elected," Ravitch says. Last month Education Secretary Richard Riley agreed to surrender control...
Gates said that he expects a major social scientist to join the department in the spring, although he remained silent on the scholar's identity...
...Even for a scholar to make a report on that topic in 120 days is a pretty formidable task," Rudenstine said...
Visiting Professor of German Eric Rentschler, of the University of California at Irvine, has compiled a varied reading list featuring recent works such as Holo-caust scholar Saul Friedlander's Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, dissecting the magic and myth that have shrouded recollections of Hitler in popular culture; Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective, analyzing President Reagan's 1985 controversial visit to a Holocaust cemetery; and Spielberg's Holocaust, a volume of essays analyzing the strengths and limitations of Schindler's List in bridging cinema and history...