Word: scholarly
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...feel like I'm storming an impregnable fortress," says Guo, the women's advocate. "But we have had a few concrete victories." Last year, Guo and her colleagues successfully lobbied to eliminate a regulation forbidding female graduate students from becoming pregnant. "We can't change everything overnight," says scholar Teng Biao. "But even the leaders recognize they must reform the system if they want to resolve societal problems...
...ready to be a Koranic scholar...
...gained prominence in recent years for his essays in The New York Times Magazine and for advising the Coalition Provisional Authority on designing the Iraqi constitution. He was a visiting professor at the Law School in 2004-2005. “He’s a really interesting scholar and has great practical experience on some of the most important issues facing the world,” said Professor of Law David J. Barron ’89, a former Crimson president. “He also does intensive work in the religious clauses, which has been a hugely important...
...letters, written by Rossi while he was a young scholar at Oxford in the 1930s, contain a fantastical claim: Vlad the Impaler, a despotic 15th century prince who inspired Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula,” really was a vampire—and really was undead...
...Fellow winner Joshua H. Billings ’07 agrees, saying of Rhodes, “He definitely has some [legacies] that are less positive, but I don’t think that effects the legitimacy of the Rhodes scholarships.” Former Rhodes scholar Robert I. Rotberg, author of a biography of Rhodes and a program director at the Kennedy School, echoed the sentiment of this year’s winners. “Whatever one might think of Cecil Rhodes himself, he did leave money for the Rhodes scholarships, and there are enough Rhodes scholars at Harvard...