Word: scholarly
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...easily resurrected." In fact, some experts say, these reminders of childhood may be so appealing because that era was--at least until the boomers started raising their own kids--the most child-centered in history. "Industry and communities focused on these cherished progeny," notes Purdue University family-studies scholar Karen Fingerman. "Communities built schools to educate them, and toy companies generated trinkets to amuse them...
...just about educating students but about research and shaping policy in the United States.”When asked about the possibility of Princeton recruiting any Harvard professors for the new program—in addition to Appiah and West, Princeton publicly courted Harvard scholar Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in 2002—Cliatt chuckled and politely replied that “we are excited about a wide range of opportunities.” At the potential threat of losing faculty to the unofficial rival, Higginbotham responded...
...Osama bin Laden in 1996 and 1998 against America - have come to epitomize the intolerance of Islamic fundamentalists. Yet many Muslims argue that the purpose of fatwas has been misunderstood: A fatwa is, technically speaking, a ruling on a point of Islamic law made by a recognized Muslim scholar in response to a question put to him. Since Osama bin Laden is no Islamic scholar, many deny his right to issue a fatwa. The sway that fatwas hold over Muslims is also not as great as many outsiders think. Last year, a Muslim cleric issued a fatwa stating that...
...part Confucian scholar, part medieval monk. His little office in the TIME bureau on the second floor of the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon was piled almost to the ceiling with stacks upon stacks of dusty documents, reports and newspapers, any one of which he was magically able to locate at a moment's notice, although such notice was rarely necessary, because he seemed to have committed it all to memory. He smoked constantly, drank rarely, laughed easily, bred and raised German shepherds and drove a tiny, rattling Renault through whose floorboards you could see the road going...
...takes over for longtime papal spokesman Joaqu?n Navarro-Valls. Though Navarro-Valls, a suave Opus Dei layman, was prized for his ability to shape John Paul's message for the modern media, he too had appeared to be biding his time since the start of this pontificate. The Jesuit scholar Lombardi, a much more low-key figure, must begin to help translate Benedict's lofty prose into the stuff of daily news copy. Also, just last week, the new head of the Vatican's foreign affairs office was named. It is Mons. Dominique Mamberti, a Moroccan-born Frenchman...