Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...currently a visiting scholar at the Law School and at the Kennedy School of Government...
...potential employers just how I had ended up not taking a single English course during my time at Harvard, despite my professed love for reading and writing, I decided that the time had come to shop for some electives that would make me a more well-rounded liberal arts scholar...
...nearly 4.0 average. Though he was slightly built and wore enormous glasses, Raines was even captain of the football team. "Mr. Everything," the Seattle Times called him when he got a four-year scholarship to Harvard. Five years later, the paper touted the 23-year-old Rhodes scholar as a "super black"--which may help explain why the OMB director bristled the first time his press staff made note of his race in a news release and ordered that it never happen again...
...YORK CITY: A mixed-race jury convicted two black men of violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Jewish scholar who was stabbed to death during the 1991 Crown Heights race riots. Although a sentence has not yet been handed down, Lemnick Nelson, 20, and Charles Price, 43, face life in prison. After a mostly black jury acquitted Nelson and Price in an earlier state criminal trial, Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the case in 1994 under fierce pressure from Jewish organizations who argued the attack was religiously motivated. Rosenbaum, who wore the traditional garb of an Hasidic...
...Faculty members about more than just the reporting topics of the day. I've discussed with Wolcowitz his love of photography, traveling and convertibles. I've spoken with Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth about his taste in movies, ballets and symphonies. I've reviewed Shakespeare scholar Stephen J. Greenblatt's family situation with him to figure out when he might accept Harvard's longstanding tenure offer. (He did this fall, after his youngest child graduated from high school). And I've conversed with Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson about his place...