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Counter said the structure is approximately 5 ft. by 4 ft. "It's very large, done in jet-black granite and gold," Counter said. "It has his face in bas-relief in gold with 'Arthur Robert Jr. Ashe,' then 'Distinguished Athlete. Scholar and Humanitarian...
Frank Zindler, a Columbus, Ohio, biologist and biblical scholar, was furious after seeing the special. He had been asked to appear in a subsequent Sun International production called Ancient Secrets of the Bible II, which aired on CBS in May. Zindler backed out of his taping appointment and fired off a letter to CBS, calling the ark program "an attempt to show that modern science is wrong and Bronze Age mythology is correct." Earlier, Zindler began having qualms about his interview when he received instructions from Sun International revealing that "most of the pro-con arguments are pre-scripted...
...writing and teaching have always ranged widely. Their base -- laid long ago at Harvard -- is the tradition of German philology, exemplified in America by the emigre scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), that explores the modes and levels of representation in Western writing. "Representation" -- how we see other cultures, how we depict them in our own through imagination and stereotype -- is the core of Said's work, especially of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. But Said despises what he calls "the minority mentality" on American campuses. "My books are one long protest against it. The status of victim...
Among academics who study voting rights, Guinier's writing is generally held in high regard. "She's the best legal scholar working in voting rights today," says Professor Kathryn Abrams of Cornell law school. "In a scholarly sense, I don't consider her outside the mainstream." That assessment is more strenuously debated in wider legal circles. Says Stuart Taylor Jr. of Legal Times, who has studied Guinier's writings: "She's more radical than her supporters would have you believe. Her proposals seem to be premised on a bleak vision of America as a land of 'subjugated minorities...
Cambridge is a comfortable place for a gay couple, he says, and Harvard is without doubt a comfortable place for a scholar. Warren Goldfarb is not likely to move anytime soon