Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morphing devolved in the five years since it was displayed in Terminator 2? Into comedy, of course. Because of it, Eddie Murphy's 67th comeback film may actually be a hit. In this remake of Jerry Lewis' 1963 Jekyll-Hyde comedy, Eddie is a pleasant, grossly fat scholar whose thin evil twin is, it seems, Eddie Murphy. Anyway, it looks funny. Murphy often does when he disappears into a character instead of strutting...
...your article on the search for Jesus, you stated that German scholar Carsten Peter Thiede thinks a tiny papyrus fragment containing a couple of verses of the Magdalen St. Matthew's Gospel could have been written around A.D. 70 by someone who was an eyewitness to the events described [RELIGION, April 8]. A 1st century date for all four Gospels is now agreed upon by most scholars. Even if St. Matthew's Gospel were written as early as Thiede suggests, this would tell us nothing about the historical value or theological truth of its contents. A Gospel written...
...Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 on affirmative action than to hold disruptive and hollow protests ("Students Gather to Protest Views of Mansfield," News, April 26, 1996). I often disagree with Mr. Mansfield's views on contemporary social and political issues, but I also know that he is a distinguished scholar who is happy to discuss his opinions with interested students. Such discussion is precisely why it is valuable to have such a superb faculty; if students ignore their access to that resource and resort to demagoguery and sloganeering, why pay Harvard's high tuition...
...money from Islamic businessmen, mainly in the Gulf, runs it through companies in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East and eventually funnels it to holy warriors in various countries. "There was a time when people thought that any support for international terrorism must be state-centered," says a scholar in London. "The bin Laden phenomenon is an illustration of the privatization of the support of terrorism...
There, he won a number of awards for teaching and research, including the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. He has also worked as a consultant for the Exxon Corporation, Sepracor and Ethyl Corporation...