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Back in 1990, Robert Oxnam was on top of the world. He had parlayed an academic career as a China scholar into the presidency of the prestigious Asia Society, the leading sponsor of cultural, educational and artistic contact between the U.S. and Asia. And because the late '80s were a time of increasing political unrest in China--culminating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre--Oxnam, now 62, was frequently tapped by political leaders to help them figure out how to deal with the Chinese. He even accompanied former President George H.W. Bush as an on-the-ground adviser...
Take Point scholar Maya Marcel-Keyes of Chicago, for instance. The 20-year-old daughter of conservative activist and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, Marcel-Keyes has a girlfriend but has dated two boys; identifies herself as queer (not lesbian), pro-life and "anarchist"; and attends Mass whenever she can spare the time from her menagerie. (When Marcel-Keyes and I spoke recently, she and her girlfriend had a rabbit, a ferret, a cockatiel, two rats and two salamanders.) For their part, several of the young Exodus Christians seemed more stereotypically gay--"I love that Prada bag!" a 16-year...
...interesting stories to tell you when she visits—a little peculiar and distinct from the rest of the world, but much wisdom and experience to impart nonetheless. In the past year, I have taken a course by one of the world’s leading Yiddish scholar, met 19-year-olds who have written books or started their own companies, traveled to Yale to play a match of club tennis, taken the oldest public transportation system in the United States to see a symphony and shop on Newbury street, and partied at million dollar mansions that masquerade...
This was the first formal visit of a head of state to one of the Harvard Houses, according to Kirkland Scholar in Residence Peter Emerson, the organizer of the “Conversations with Kirkland” speaker series...
...University, which received nearly $500 million from the federal government in the 2004 fiscal year, will mark the holiday with a lecture by the preeminent constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62. Tribe said he plans to speak on “the Constitution’s future” under John G. Roberts Jr. ’76, the pending nominee for chief justice of the Supreme Court...