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...primarily a scholar,” he continues. “The reason I went into this business, the reason I pursued a career as a professor, is that I love to read and write books...
After all, how many 22-year-olds do you know who have pulled off the scholar-athlete-humorist hat trick? Fried is the kind of guy you thought existed only in economic models. He has an aversion to leisure and insanely high productivity...
...from arbitrary. A good fraction of the girls who would wear headscarves to school belong to the ranks of young French ethnic Arabs who do not adhere to fundamentalist Islam for cultural reasons; tragically, they feel it has more to offer them than does the French republic. Respected scholar Gilles Kepel describes the engagement of young second- and third-generation French Arabs with the Islamic faith not as the perpetuation of their family’s culture and religion—since many of their parents have given up most Muslim practices—but rather as the invention...
...sense that she asks people to rethink their conceptions of Christianity, King deals with many of the same ideas as Da Vinci Code. But she brushes aside comparisons between herself and the novel’s fictional Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. The scholar and self-described feminist says the closest field to Langdon’s nonexistent field of symbology would be semiology, a field unrepresented at Harvard...
...sense that she asks people to rethink their conceptions of Christianity, King deals with many of the same ideas as Da Vinci Code. But she brushes aside comparisons between herself and the novel’s fictional Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. The scholar and self-described feminist says the closest field to Langdon’s nonexistent field of symbology would be semiology, a field unrepresented at Harvard...