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...plaintiffs’ lawyers called upon Cott, an expert in the history of marriage and a scholar of 20th century gender relations, to the stand on Tuesday. In her testimony, she drew connections between the current restrictions on same-sex marriage and former marriage restrictions, such as the laws that once forbade white women from marrying Chinese men and the infamous miscegenation laws repealed in 1967 that prohibited white women from marrying black...
Also, The Yale Daily News’s blog reports that Harold Bloom, the famous academic and Shakespeare scholar of The Western Canon fame, has sadly canceled his two seminars this semester due to a severe illness and hospitalization since December...
After battling illness for eight months, Ševčenko, the renowned scholar and professor emeritus of Byzantine history and literature, died in his home...
Flier, who had known Ševčenko since 1991, said that Ševčenko was not the kind of scholar who spent all of his time isolated in his study, absorbed in his own work—instead, he was a generous and approachable professor who often invited students to lunch. The world of historical scholarship, Flier said, will miss Ševčenko as someone who had great command of the field—but Flier added that he will remember his friend best for his warmth and grace...
...Heydari applies for asylum, it will mark a significant defection for Iran - especially at a time when the Iranian people and the rest of the world are watching for cracks to appear in the government following last month's violence. Davoud Hermidas Bavand, a scholar and former diplomat in Iran, told the Los Angeles Times that such a defection would be huge: "If it is true, then it is going to be a precedent, because it has not happened since the beginning years of the [1979] revolution, when some of the appointed postrevolutionary diplomats defected and sought asylum. This case...