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...religion scholar teaches Foreign Cultures 28, "The Civilization of Islam," and served as director of the Foreign Cultures area of the Core in the early 1980s...
...personally think there is a tradition to have scientists involved in the administration," said Professor of Chemistry Cynthia M. Friend. Before Bok, who is a law scholar, two of Harvard's presidents in this century, James Bryant Conant '14 and Charles W. Eliot '04, were scientists
...Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in cash, virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology, the self...
...black tradition it's like being a Talmudic scholar, a person of letters who writes about African-American culture...
...gave me James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. I felt like Baldwin was naming me in a way that I didn't even know I needed to be named. It changed my life. That's where I first got the inkling that I might want to be a scholar, to serve my people through print. How could anybody deny -- left, right or center -- the importance of that experience in shaping a young intellect? What we have to do is change the curriculum so that that experience of identification can occur for people who are not Anglo-Saxon...