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...TIME.com spoke with Professor Eltis, a leading scholar on the African Diaspora, about his book...
...program advertises its positions in journals like the Black Scholar and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Sommers pays visits to campuses to recruit prospective candidates...
...enthusiastic and briskly written 800-page Empire Express, published last year and now in a Penguin USA paperback edition, Middlebury College scholar David Haward Bain follows the money and back-room politics in more detail than Ambrose provides. Not unexpectedly, the G.I.'s chronicler prefers the front lines, where he is at his best describing men, armed with only hand tools, hacking and scraping their way over 2,000 inhospitable miles. When black powder proved too slow in piercing mountain granite, more powerful but dangerously unstable nitroglycerin was used--even though that meant more blasters would...
...what made Kostunica the perfect candidate now was what he was not. He was a humble, bookish scholar, not a brash firebrand pol. He was a vigorous nationalist, not an ethnic killer. He subscribed to multiparty democracy and market economics but never kowtowed to the West. He wanted to end confrontation with Europe and the U.S. but harshly condemned NATO's air war and slammed Washington's aggressive support for the Serbian opposition this past year as "the kiss of death." He vowed not to deliver Milosevic to the Hague, calling the war-crimes tribunal an illegitimate instrument...
...addition to announcing Rhodes nominees, Harvard also endorsed 29 Marshall Scholar applicants last night. The Marshall Scholarship offers up to 40 students in the United States the opportunity to study at various universities within the United Kingdom...