Word: scholaritis
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...scholar who has written about Brokeback Mountain, and I remain moved by Ledger's extraordinary portrayal of Ennis. As one who has followed with admiration Ledger's amazing career through the years, I feel he deserved to be on the cover of TIME after his premature death. Clifton Snider, English Dept., California State University, LONG BEACH, CALIF...
...count of sexual battery for allegedly performing oral sex on a minor at a hotel in Florida, according to court documents. Carl S. McGee, who is assistant secretary for policy and planning in the Democratic administration, was a 1998 graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Rhodes Scholar. According to a probable cause document from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, McGee was arrested at the Gasparilla Inn & Club in Boca Grande, Fla. in late December after police received a complaint from a man claiming that McGee had sexually abused his teenage son in the steam room...
...just like to correct a tangential and perhaps unintended insinuation in her otherwise well-argued piece. She writes: “converting from Hinduism to Christianity as a senior in high school (and later asking his wife to do the same), attending Brown University and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, working as a consultant at McKinsey…the only part of ‘Indian-American’ he embodies lies after the hyphen.” The implication that Mr. Jindal’s religious persuasion, educational achievement, or professional choices were anomalous given his Indian heritage...
...College in June 2009. Wright, 68, has served as the college’s 16th president since August 1998, and has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty for nearly forty years, according to a university press release. Like University President Drew G. Faust, Wright is a preeminent scholar of American history. Wright began discussing his departure with Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees Chair, Charles E. Haldeman, in late fall 2007 and made his final decision over the winter vacation, according to The Dartmouth, the college’s student newspaper. The board will discuss the search process...
...Wright is one of the most formidable figures in the world of Christian thought. As Bishop of Durham, he is the fourth most senior cleric in the Church of England and a major player in the strife-riven global Anglican Communion; as a much-read theologian and Biblical scholar he has taught at Cambridge and is a hero to conservative Christians worldwide for his 2003 book The Resurrection of the Son of God, which argued forcefully for a literal interpretation of that event...