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Immediately following Yavlinsky's speech, Richard Pipes, a retired professor of history at Harvard and an acclaimed scholar on Russia, delivered a response...
Both scholarships pay for the scholar's travel expenses, health care, tuition, books, as well as grant a personal stipend. While Bohlmann said that both fellowships "are names that will open doors," he said that "everyone who has been offered two takes the Rhodes...
Administration officials chalk up the opposition to overheated speculation on all sides, and they're partly right. But the White House has made miscues of its own. Early supporters of the national-test plan, like Finn and Brookings Institution scholar Diane Ravitch, have deserted the President because the tests were developed through the politically appointed Department of Education rather than by a nonpartisan body like the independent National Assessment Governing Board. "It's wrong to have a new national test every time a new President is elected," Ravitch says. Last month Education Secretary Richard Riley agreed to surrender control...
DIED. LEON EDEL, 89, the reigning authority on Henry James, who vividly detailed the author's life in a five-volume, Pulitzer-prizewinning biography; in Honolulu. In Edel's energetic and engrossing work, James emerged not as the passionless scholar of previous interpretations but as an artist of great spirit as well as mind, roiled by psychic conflict...
Gates said that he expects a major social scientist to join the department in the spring, although he remained silent on the scholar's identity...