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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...proven himself an effective and trusted administrator. He’s also pretty bright: an intellectual force I would say, if the term wasn’t already debased. Harvard’s undergraduates will benefit from a master teacher in charge more than from any leading composition scholar it may find elsewhere...

Author: By Eric Weinberger | Title: Exposing the Field of Writing | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...Saberi entered the Miss North Dakota beauty pageant at the urging of a college instructor. She won, and became one of the final 10 contestants in that year's Miss America Pageant - the only finalist of Asian descent and the first recipient of the pageant's "Scholar Award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imprisoned Journalist Roxana Saberi | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...right out of a novel or a Shakespeare play," says Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute. "And in some ways, it will be interesting to see if a guy who feels he was tagged as a racist unfairly will listen to appeals that he not do the same thing to judicial nominees of the party that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sessions Could Make Obama's Supreme Court Fight Tougher | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N." That edict has nurtured McConaughey from his early prominence, in the John Grisham drama A Time to Kill, through some ragged adventure sagas (the arid Sahara) to a welcome cameo as Ben Stiller's agent in Tropic Thunder. As McConaughey scholar (and my niece) Diana White tells me, he's more than the sum of dimples and muscles. But anybody can be an actor; it's tough to be an icon. McConaughey sustains his status by bantering effortlessly with Jay Leno, spoofing himself in a Sex & the City episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The McConaughey Mystery: King of Hunks | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...chick assistants to spare one hot chick? If so, who would assist that hot chick with all that stuff that only hot chicks do?Timothy McCarthy: A lot of solid work lately. Keep it up, and one day you’ll get an abstract in THURJ.Glenda Carpio: This scholar in the Af-Am and English Department has been working round the clock to fill in her Venn diagram of commonalities between Meg Ryan, Karl Malone, and Vinnie Chiappini. Hint, Glenda: It’s an affinity for John Stockton! Sound fundamentals AND short shorts? Who wouldn?...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hotshots? More Like Waterboys | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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