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...Rhodes scholar, he spent one year reading history at Oxford University and then switched to English, eventually receiving first class honors in his field...
Remember Robert Bork? Four years ago, liberal legislators beat back Ronald Reagan's nomination of the controversial conservative scholar to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now ideological forces are marshaling for another judicial confirmation battle. The focus is Federal District Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, 58, nominated by President Bush to fill a vacancy on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Florida. The Miami jurist will face a rugged reception this week at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, where opponents will try to block his confirmation on the ground that he is insensitive to civil rights...
Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred remembers Rudenstine, a former Rhodes scholar, as a skilled literary critic, commenting, "He had a wonderful, subtle sense of what makes a book really a book...
...reaction is not entirely unwarranted. Until last month, news about Harvard's ailing Afro-Am Department was consistently embarrassing or, at best, pitiable. To suggest then that, within two months, Harvard would have attracted both the nation's top Afro-Am scholar to chair its department and its most stimulating Black pop culture figure to teach a lecture course would have been laughable...
...Constitutional and representative government has been a miserable failure in the Arab world," says Elie Kedourie, a renowned scholar of Islam. "Elections and parliaments have no roots in classic Muslim thought. Only one figure holds ultimate legitimate authority in both the secular and religious realms, and that's the Caliph. The title may change, but the theory does...