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...South Korea has been far less willing than the preceding administration to send economic aid to the North without movement on the nuclear issue. But the North's anger at this has gotten it nowhere thus far. In fact, Lee just appointed as his Unification Minister a notably hawkish scholar who was one of the architects of the policy that suspended rice and fertilizer aid to the North in lieu of progress on the nuclear issue. So North Korea watchers in Seoul now believe that Pyongyang is upping the ante to create widespread concern in the South about the deterioration...
...funds will be divided. Until Tribe retires, the professorship will be called the Thurgood Marshall Professorship of Constitutional Law. Upon his retirement the position will be renamed the Laurence H. Tribe Professorship of Constitutional Law. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, is the second most cited constitutional scholar in the country and garnered increased media attention during the past two years as a result of his connections to President Barack Obama. During his time at the Law School, Obama served as Tribe’s research assistant and later called the professor one of his mentors at the school...
Friends, colleagues, and students gathered beneath the vaulted ceilings of Memorial Church to remember the life of former history professor Angeliki Laiou. The acclaimed scholar of Byzantine history’s penetrating intellect and commanding presence created legions of followers who admired her academic expertise as much as her cosmopolitan sensibilities. “Angeliki Laiou’s family has lost its foundation. Greece has lost one of her most distinguished daughters. The international world of Byzantine studies has lost its most excellent historian,” said history Professor Michael McCormick. “Harvard has lost...
...He’s a first-rate scholar on a whole range of issues involving the federal judiciary as well as habeas corpus—everything ranging from torture to Guantanamo,” said HLS Professor Laurence H. Tribe...
...Another area that needs re-examination, says scholar Boucek, is the assessment of the risk of recidivism. "There's a lot of research on, for instance, when you should release a child molester from jail," he says. "But there's been no study on terrorists. When do you let a head chopper out of rehab...