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...scholar, Ford avoided specialization in a narrow field, conducting his research and teaching in several areas and time periods in Western European History. His efforts were rewarded with grants, accolades and prestigious fellowships...
...what the great professors do—he was a great scholar and teacher. He was there all the time as a resource of advice and encouragement,” said Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, a history professor who earned his Ph.D. under Ford’s guidance...
Harvey Pekar - blue-collar scholar, retired file clerk, television celebrity, journalist, observer of life and creator of the 25 year-old comic series "American Splendor" - can now add "movie star" to his c.v. "American Splendor" started in 1976 as a self-published autobiographical comic book that chronicled the author's living and working in Cleveland. Disarmingly low-key and driven mostly by the working-class intellectual author's irascible but entertaining personality, "American Splendor" uses a medium associated mostly with sensational escapism for odes on the frustrations, triumphs and mundanities of ordinary life...
...reason so many hawks seemed ready to make the case for retaliating against Saddam as well as bin Laden may have been the influence of Laurie Mylroie, a conservative scholar who had convinced herself - and a number of influential conservatives, although not the U.S. intelligence community - that Iraq had been behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and was very likely behind 9/11, too. But as eccentric as her argument was to the U.S. intelligence community, it was hailed by Wolfowitz, who wrote in a blurb to her book that it "argues powerfully that the mastermind of the 1993 World...
...leading heptathlete, was competing as a junior (admittedly, the world's top junior). Two weeks ago the bubbly 20-year-old Swede graduated to an even higher plane, as she accepted a special award from Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria. Kluft had been voted this year's Victoria Scholar, one of the highest honors in Swedish sports. The award panel singled out "the very un-Swedish way she has shown us that you really can have fun on the field of competition, even though there is so much at stake." But who wouldn't be having fun? The heptathlon...