Word: scholar
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...addition to a misguided foreign policy, theories of cultural incompatability create thorny fault-lines between Arabs and Americans. Such ideas are intellectually questionable and politically dangerous and are likely to become self-fulfilling prophesies when an influential scholar such as Albert J. Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington declares that 'Islam has bloody borders' and suggests that the next enemy of the West is the Arab and Islamic World. Such a paranoid search for new enemies after the demise of the Soviet Union will result in new enemies...
...woman, who asked to be identified as a scholar in the library, agreed that more students should take advantage of them...
...Chaim Herzog, Israel's longest-serving president, died in Jerusalem at age 78. Herzog, who became Israel's sixth president in 1983, served in the largely ceremonial post for 10 years and was instrumental in helping shape the country's world image. "He was such a gentleman and a scholar, who had a sort of soothing impact which took a lot of the hard, sharp edges out of internal political debate," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "He moderated the dialogue and helped people reach accommodations behind the scenes that they might not have otherwise been able to achieve." In addition...
...Combine the braininess of the legendary black scholar W.E.B. DuBois and the chutzpah of P.T. Barnum, and the result is Henry Louis Gates Jr.," the article said...
...latest book, Professor Emeritus of Education and Sociology Nathan Glazer, a pre-eminent neoconservative scholar, significantly restated his position on multiculturalism and affirmative action, coming to support them in certain cases...