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Cornel West is not an historian of the Middle East, nor is he a scholar of international relations. By training, he is a philosopher. What gives West the authority to speak on the Middle East is that he is a member of a special group of people who have been appointed—either by themselves or by the national media—to set forth their opinions and views on the pressing social issues of our time. West, some would say, is a typical example of a recently identified phenomenon: the public intellectual...
Jason H. Wasfy is a Marshall Scholar and graduate student in politics at Oxford. He will begin at Harvard Medical School in the fall...
...Horn was named a Harvard-Cambridge scholar, granting her a post-commencement “year of grace” to pursue any academic subject she desired. Without the rigors of collegiate life and unattracted by the pub scene, Horn found herself with lots of free time. Already an accomplished non-fiction writer—in addition to her position as a columnist for The Crimson, she has written for Time, Newsweek and Science—Horn discovered fiction through boredom...
...scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Horn is naturally interested in Jewish languages. She explains that even modern secular texts in these languages cannot elude their Biblical associations. In her novel, Horn strives to endow her English prose with this same Biblical force, merging the secular and religious in the story of a modern Job whose life’s obsession—taking snapshots of ancient religious sites—is destroyed during a hurricane...
Under the new system, only the top 5 percent of each class would be designated “John Harvard Scholars,” with the next 5 percent receiving the designation of “Harvard College Scholar.” Lewis estimated the GPA cut-off for the top 10 percent...