Word: scholar
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Every so often in the charmed life of Bill Clinton, when things have been going a little too smoothly for a little too long, the fates decide to thicken the plot. The Oxford-bound scholar comes up 1-A in the draft, the boy Governor gets tossed out by Arkansas voters, the earnest presidential candidate morphs into a skirt-chasing tabloid cartoon--and Clinton has to run harder and smarter to catch up with his dreams. Which is why some of the President's closest advisers have been anxiously peering beyond his gaudy poll numbers to the next, and inevitable...
Swimmer Caroline Miller and field hockey's Maureen O'Brien were co-recipients of the Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Athletic Prize, given to the top female scholar-athletes...
Field hockey and lacrosse player Carrie Shumway won the Mary G. Paget Prize for outstanding contributions to women's athletics, and the John P. Reardon '60 award for Harvard's top male scholar-athlete went to men's hockey star Kirk Nielsen...
When my thesis adviser came to a Cabot House faculty dinner with me, I caught another glimpse of Harvard's human dimension. I had known Professor Ted Parson of the Kennedy School of Government as a blindingly intelligent public policy scholar with an interest in ozone negotiations, but at dinner--when we sat with two of my blockmates and their professors--he mesmerized the table with discussion about everything from game theory to Austrian royalty to Richard Rhodes' latest book...
English concentrator Alice S. Chen '96 is a Rhodes Scholar, a Junior Phi Beta Kappa inductee, chair of Phillips Brooks House's CHANCE committee and a house committee officer who took five classes almost every semester...