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...very gifted scholar and a wonderful human bring," Kagan said. Though retired, Brown occasionally came to departmental meetings and offered advice when needed, Kagan said...
...very rare, Renaissance scholar," he said. "It will be a long time before we have another as gifted, erudite and humane scholar...
...Judge Jackson's court, the focus now shifts to Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, the "special master" empowered by Jackson to sort through the daunting complexities of federal antitrust law and Microsoft's operating-system strategies--and to report back by May 31. Lessig, 36, an iconoclastic legal scholar who has written about the "tyranny" of computer code, is a Macintosh user...
This is a particularly vexed matter because Tibetan Buddhism is an unusually charged and esoteric set of practices uncommonly difficult to translate, "a unique blend," as the Buddhist scholar Christmas Humphreys once wrote, "of the noblest Buddhist principles and debased sorcery." Its core, as with all Buddhism, is a belief in suffering and emptiness, and the need for compassion in the face of those. But unlike the stripped-down austerities of Zen, say, Tibetan Buddhism swarms with animist spirits, vivid symbolic depictions of copulating bodies, and Tantric practices of magic and sexuality that, taken out of context or practiced without...
...Given the fears, he should have gone out of his way" to avoid any suggestion of nepotism, says Marc Falcoff, a Latin American scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, who has just written a book on Panama. "Nothing would have given the international community more confidence...