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...Marshall Scholar, Schwartz will spend the next two years studying at Oxford. He also plans to continue the work he has done with the Phillips-Brooks House Association's small claims advisory committee by attending law school after his time at Oxford...
...horrified by a visit to his granddaughters' prep school. The 12-year-olds, he says, "spend hours each month - directly and indirectly - preparing for the SAT, studying long lists of verbal analogies such as 'untruthful is to mendaciousness' as 'circumspect is to caution.'" Atkinson, once a distinguished visiting scholar at E.T.S., decided to take several SAT sample tests, hoping to find some value in all the kids' efforts. His conclusion: "America's overemphasis on the SAT is compromising our educational system...
...education reform, advocated tenure reform and embraced faculty diversity during her short stint as Princeton's Dean of the Faculty. Gutmann's efforts to engage undergraduates and to promote the progress of women in the sciences indicate her concern for the undergraduate experience. Furthermore, Gutmann is a renowned scholar in her field. Though she is not as well-known in the political arena as Bollinger or Summers, her work at the Center for Human Values has equipped her well for the national stage. She has more experience at Harvard than any candidate except Fineberg; she attended Harvard as an undergraduate...
...holds more power: the President or parliament. Wahid believes he holds the trump card; parliament sees things differently. Wahid's style isn't helping his cause. Even close friends use words like "arrogant" and "disdainful" to describe his attitude, which may be traced partly to his upbringing. An Islamic scholar, fluent in five languages, Wahid descends from a line of Javanese holy men, and it is difficult to convince him that he is not infallible. Ever since Wahid became the country's first democratically elected President in three decades, he has shown a knack for picking fights. Says Taufik Abdullah...
...neither case has it been proven that Wahid pocketed the missing funds, but his refusal to kowtow before parliament has cost him. Says Nurcholish Majid, a respected Muslim scholar and long-time Wahid associate: "He doesn't believe he's done anything wrong, and he'll use whatever he has for his defense...