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...night, ABHW presented Bonnie St. John ’86 with the Alberta E. Scott Alumna of the Year award. St. John, who had one leg amputated at a young age, won the silver and bronze medals in downhill skiing at the 1984 Paralympics and was also a Rhodes Scholar. She described how visualizing her own dreams of Olympic glory enabled her to overcome poverty and physical disability to become the first African American woman ever to win an Olympic medal in skiing.“When you dream big, reality is not going to go along quietly. Reality will...
...Along with luck and formidable bombmaking abilities, Azahari and Nurdin, once colleagues in the geophysics department of an obscure Malaysian university, have one other critical talent?the ability to convince young men to sacrifice their lives in the name of Islam. Azyumardi Azra, a moderate Islamic scholar and rector of the State Islamic University in Jakarta, argues that a combination of poverty, the speed of societal change since the fall of dictator Suharto in 1998, and the Western military presence in Iraq, has left many young Muslims alienated and receptive to the message of global jihad. "The recruiters are good...
Barry is visiting scholar at the Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research and the author of The Great Influenza
...piece that—surprisingly—has been left out of the anthology is former books and arts editor Joseph Bottum’s October 2004 article on Harvard constitutional law scholar Lawrence Tribe. Bottum revealed that Tribe, in a 1985 book on Supreme Court appointments, included a 19-word passage that was lifted verbatim—without attribution—from an earlier text by a University of Virginia political scientist...
Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62, a constitutional scholar at Harvard Law School and frequent practitioner before the Supreme Court, wrote in an e-mail that Miers’ “record to date certainly does not establish the kind of intellectual excellence or breadth of experience that should be demanded in a Justice of the Supreme Court...