Word: scholarly
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...Asia. Ni-hao and Konnichiwa. Take a seat next to the idiot who’s here because he enjoys watching Sailor Moon and wants to write his thesis on why possessing a tamagotchi and liking szechuan chicken gives him the right to stake his claim as an EAS scholar. Lucky for you, despite the bevy of unavoidable but surmountable requirements, the East Asian Studies department is a pretty kick-ass place to spend three years if you are genuinely interested in anything related to Asia. History, Literature, Linguistics, Econ, Anthro, Religion, Sociology, or VES?...
...Adam's fall--sin, pain and death--and their New Testament antidote: Jesus' atoning sacrifice and the importance of repentance. And social liberals express a related frustration that preachers like Osteen show little interest in battling the ills of society at large. Perhaps appropriately so, since, as Prosperity scholar Harrison explains, "philosophically, their main way of helping the poor is encouraging people not to be one of them...
...cram them into a decrepit VW bus and set them on the road to nowhere. The central joke is that their behavior is perfectly sublimated and perfectly committed to the intricate desperations by which they hope to gain fame, riches or, in the case of a recently defrocked Proust scholar, an alternative to suicide. All in all I thought it was the smartest American movie of the summer, not least because it acknowledged the dark side of the national psyche without wallowing...
...definitely bruise feelings sometimes because he speaks without ambiguity and knows where he stands," says Ed Firmage, a long-time friend and constitutional scholar, who knew Anderson when was doing prison reform work and taking pro bono cases as a lawyer 20 years ago. "He is a humane, compassionate man and that is why he speaks with such force," adds Firmage...
...onslaught comes despite the fact that an exhaustive review by the nation's top homework scholar, Duke University's Harris Cooper, concluded that homework does not measurably improve academic achievement for kids in grade school. That's right: all the sweat and tears do not make Johnny a better reader or mathematician...