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...campus, Harry conveys Ruth to and from classes on a tandem bicycle, he in front and she in scholar's mortarboard and gown in the back. Harry has won little public admiration with his protective and often garrulous ways, dropping a parental curtain between Ruth and the journalists trailing the celebrity scholar. "Her father . . . never closes his mouth," wrote a frustrated London Daily Express reporter, and "clings to his priceless pearl like a limpet." Meanwhile, in Huddersfield, Sylvia manages a job as a computer consultant and programmer while teaching Rebecca, who finished high school last month at eleven...
...scholar who is already a major figure in the field only a couple years out of graduate school is a real coup for Harvard,” he said...
During a two-week period at two ethnically diverse Los Angeles middle schools, says Adrienne Nishina, a post-doctoral scholar at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, nearly half the 192 kids she interviewed reported being bullied at least once; even more said they had seen others targeted. Also important, says Nishina: kids are frequently as distressed by witnessing bullying as by being bullied...
...Professor White was the model of a scholar. He attacked important problems with an incisive mind and a sense of history. He was an elegant model for what a university faculty member should be,” said Jerome Kagan, the Starch Research Professor of Psychology...
...scholar Giancarlo Zizola was wrong when he said the Pope “saved the values of the West from the West itself.” Instead we will continue to change our ideas of nature and God and create our own values. In the process, I hope we will not forget what John Paul II tried to remind us: seeking God, and the Truth, is always good. It is never easy...