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...Barack Obama is the only candidate who can give us 21st-century solutions to 21st-century threats,” foreign policy scholar Samantha Power said at an event last night for Obama...
...Jacobovici, finding the controversial tombs - debunked by one Biblical scholar as "archeo-porn" - shouldn't shake the foundations of Christian faith at all. He told TIME: "For millions of people, this is inspirational. It could prove that Jesus wasn't a myth - he really existed. People have come up to me and said their faith has been reinforced...
Einstein's greatest intellectual stimulation came from a poor student who dined with his family once a week. It was an old Jewish custom to take in a needy religious scholar to share the Sabbath meal; the Einsteins modified the tradition by hosting instead a medical student on Thursdays. His name was Max Talmud, and he began his weekly visits when he was 21 and Einstein...
...GSAS dean’s tenure has not been a quiet one, nor one unscathed by controversy and political vendetta. Rather, Skocpol’s career as a scholar has been tumultuous since its nascence, marked by several prominent confrontations with University administrators. In 1980, she filed a grievance against the University, alleging gender discrimination when her tenure application was denied. She had described Harvard as “the most arrogant university in the Western world,” but was eventually granted tenure after administrators reviewed her charges of prejudice...
...Scholar and a Gentleman James Graff's profile of François Bayrou [March 26], although most interesting, seemed to give an unfair and somewhat distorted impression of the French presidential candidate's intellectual background. I am writing here as an academic, not a politician. Bayrou is a farmer's son, for sure, and a gentleman farmer, probably. But while he is no product of a French administrative or political grande école, he is a doctor of literature. He is, therefore, quite an erudite individual. No nitwit! And an excellent, learned writer in his own right. Françoise...