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Hosein, a prominent Islamic scholar, discussed various aspects of the relationship between the Islamic religion and marriage...
...there was a turning point in the public image of home schooling, it came in 1987, when Grant Colfax got into Harvard after having been taught by his parents his entire life. Grant graduated magna cum laude, became a Fulbright scholar and graduated from Harvard Medical School. One by one, his home- schooled brothers followed suit. "Our kids were more or less the guinea pigs," says Micki Colfax, who along with husband David home schooled all four Colfax children from their home in Boonville, California (pop. 750). "Their going to Harvard validated what home schooling was all about...
Says senior editor Charles Alexander, who will be working with Wright: "Bob is a rare writer -- a scholar who surveys materials intended for professionals and then makes the information accessible to the general reader, adding his own perceptive interpretations. He can cover a lot of different areas in a really vivid, readable style." We look forward to hearing more from Wright as he analyzes developments in an exciting era in science...
Another Harvard scholar said she worries about free speech implications...
Three South African blacks who killed Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright Scholar, were given sentences of 18 years in prison, avoiding the death penalty. The judge said that the killers could be rehabilitated even though they haven't shown remorse for the brutal, racially-motivated slaying, which took place last August outside Cape Town...