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...feel like I'm storming an impregnable fortress," says Guo, the women's advocate. "But we have had a few concrete victories." Last year, Guo and her colleagues successfully lobbied to eliminate a regulation forbidding female graduate students from becoming pregnant. "We can't change everything overnight," says scholar Teng Biao. "But even the leaders recognize they must reform the system if they want to resolve societal problems...
...former colleagues say they remember hearing Laura J. Garwin ’77 practicing the trumpet in the office late at night. Garwin, a former Rhodes scholar who earned a degree in Geology from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Cambridge, says she has played the trumpet since she was eight years old. But her music always took second place to her career...
...ready to be a Koranic scholar...
...gained prominence in recent years for his essays in The New York Times Magazine and for advising the Coalition Provisional Authority on designing the Iraqi constitution. He was a visiting professor at the Law School in 2004-2005. “He’s a really interesting scholar and has great practical experience on some of the most important issues facing the world,” said Professor of Law David J. Barron ’89, a former Crimson president. “He also does intensive work in the religious clauses, which has been a hugely important...
...Fellow winner Joshua H. Billings ’07 agrees, saying of Rhodes, “He definitely has some [legacies] that are less positive, but I don’t think that effects the legitimacy of the Rhodes scholarships.” Former Rhodes scholar Robert I. Rotberg, author of a biography of Rhodes and a program director at the Kennedy School, echoed the sentiment of this year’s winners. “Whatever one might think of Cecil Rhodes himself, he did leave money for the Rhodes scholarships, and there are enough Rhodes scholars at Harvard...