Word: scholar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...version of "What I did on my vacation." Magnus Ranstorp, an al-Qaeda expert at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, speculates that the visiting Saudi wanted to immortalize his meeting with bin Laden and was planning to keep the tape private. Mustafa Alani, a Middle East security scholar at London's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies, says, "It was not the first time there has been a private video of bin Laden. They record these sort of things." Possibly it was intended for a small audience of true believers. Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert...
Naomi Schor, a leading scholar who brought feminist and psychoanalytic criticism to the study of French literature, died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage last Sunday...
Jurretta Jordan Heckscher ’79 received an M.Litt from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and a Ph.D. in American Studies last year from George Washington University. She edits the American Memory online historical collections for the Library of Congress, writes about dance for the National Endowment for the Arts, and is completing a book on the cultural importance of early African-American dance. None of this has been more fun than writing and editing for What Is To Be Done...
George Steiner, renowned writer, scholar and critic, gave his sixth and final lecture, titled “Unageing Intellect,” as the 2000-2001 Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry last night to great applause before an overflow crowd in Sackler Lecture Hall...
...city administration, Mohaqiq's aides scoff at what they see as provincial politicking. Mohaqiq himself proposes an appointed governor and staff to insure the minority Hazaras are represented. Meanwhile a Dostum aide is disdainful of both, dismissing former teacher Atta's military skills?"He's just a scholar"?and adding that Mohaqiq doesn't belong in Mazar but further south in the Hazaradjat region of the central highlands...