Word: scholar
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Pipes, who is a world-renown scholar of Russian history, served from 1981 to 1982 in the Reagan administration as an advisor to the National Security Council on Eastern Europe...
China's leaders are terrified that Deng's ideology of free-market economics and communist governance has lost its legitimacy, and they have nothing plausible to offer as a substitute. "In broad terms, this is a society that has lost its footing,'' says Kenneth Lieberthal, a scholar at the University of Michigan. ''Society is now without a sure sense of what China is all about.'' With no better alternatives, leaders emphasize stability and nationalism. "The government is uncertain," explains Robert Sutter, a China expert at the Congressional Research Service, "and that leads them to reassert control as much as they...
...successor might also be described as a Renaissance man. A onetime member of the Harvard Lampoon staff and a Rhodes scholar, Isaacson is equally at home in his native New Orleans, in London, where he began his career in journalism, in Washington, which he covered with distinction as a TIME political correspondent, and in New York City. Actually, he did feel a little lost after turning in his first story for TIME back in 1978. The lead of the piece, which began "Prior to taking office, Jimmy Carter...," was circled by then editor-in-chief Henry Grunwald (who had been...
Last year the French scholar Andre Lemaire reported a related "House of David" discovery in Biblical Archaeology Review. His subject was the Mesha Stele (also known as the Moabite Stone), the most extensive inscription ever recovered from ancient Palestine. Found in 1868 at the ruins of biblical Dibon and later fractured, the basalt stone wound up in the Louvre, where Lemaire spent seven years studying it. His conclusion: the phrase "House of David" appears there as well. As with the Tel Dan fragment, this inscription comes from an enemy of Israel boasting of a victory - King Mesha of Moab...
Science has neither proved nor disproved the existence of the itinerant preacher and wonder worker who Christians believe was the Son of God. After all, writes biblical scholar R.T. France, "no 1st century inscription mentions him and no object or building has survived which has a specific link to him." Nonetheless, recent finds in the Holy Land have provided a wealth of insights into the milieu from which belief in Christ emerged...