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...Obviously his role as an intellectual was much more as a public intellectual than as a scholar,” said Gregory Albo, professor of political science at York University in Toronto. “He doesn’t write academic books in the conventional sense; he writes popular conventional essays. He has always been a political actor in that sense...
Naval aviator William R. Kelly, who is getting his master’s degree at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, is flying high after being selected as one of this year’s 85 Rhodes Scholars. But the selection committee passed over College undergraduates for only the second time in 75 years.Kelly, a 2005 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, said he feels fortunate to have received the award, especially considering the caliber of his competition.“The other candidates were phenomenal,” Kelly said. “You almost...
...internal rebellion. Kangxi was only 7 in 1662 when he assumed the throne from his father, the first Qing Emperor, who died in a smallpox epidemic. Surviving the contagion (with scars intact, as portraits show), Kangxi worked skillfully to identify himself with both his native tribal culture and the scholarly traditions of the Chinese. Two likenesses, commissioned when he was about 30, demonstrate his Manchu soldier?Chinese scholar balancing act. A vibrant silk hanging scroll shows him in Manchu military armor, with crossbow and arrows at the ready. Like most of his tribe, he was an expert archer...
DIED. VINE DELORIA, 72, sardonic scholar widely regarded as the century's most influential Native American thinker, writer and activist; of complications from an aortic aneurysm; in Denver. In more than 20 books, most famously the 1969 manifesto Custer Died for Your Sins, the Standing Rock Sioux debunked stereotypes and articulated the legitimacy of Native American intellectual and spiritual beliefs, once noting, "We have brought the white man a long...
...election by ethnic Tamils in the north and east, who overwhelmingly preferred opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to the hawkish Rajapakse, almost certainly cost Wickremesinghe the presidency in this tightly fought contest. "If Prabhakaran wanted any kind of peace, even peace on his own terms," says Dayan Jayatilleka, a visiting scholar in South Asia studies at Johns Hopkins University, "he wouldn't have sunk Ranil...