Word: scholarly
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...Williams as its new head coach on Wednesday, and Williams wasted no time declaring “We’re going to beat Harvard. We’ve got to turn The Game back into a rivalry.” Williams played linebacker at Stanford, earning a Rhodes Scholar nomination his senior year. He captained the Cardinal to a share of the 1992 Pacific-10 Conference title. Williams began his coaching career as a graduate assistant under Bill Walsh at Stanford. He then moved to Hawaii, where he coached for three seasons, then moved to work under Rick Neuheisel...
Sunstein, an academic “superstar” and the most-cited American legal scholar, brings a keen intellect and a deep understanding of the behavioral sciences that will allow him to tailor regulation to human behavior, said Tribe, who employed Obama as a research assistant during his time at law school...
...Kagan poached top faculty like super-star legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein ’75 and Lawrence Lessig. She encouraged intellectual diversity among the faculty, notably hiring Jack L. Goldsmith, a conservative lawyer from the Bush White House, whose office stirred controversy for supporting the use of torture by the government. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...American Jesuit scholar Robert Taft, a Rome-based expert in Eastern Christian liturgy, cautions that Catholic-Orthodox relations should not be judged solely by "photo op" encounters between the Pope and Patriarch. "We are sister churches," said Taft. "There's never going to be a day when Orthodox become Catholics, or vice-versa. But we can move toward being in communion, with the Holy Trinity and with each other. That's what we're heading toward. It's a sharing of life...
...could be fairly simple: "If Israel stops its raid on Gaza and lifts its closure of the border crossings, we'll go for a truce immediately." But such conciliatory sentiments are not shared by those Hamas military commanders who are on the warpath. Says Shibley Telhami, a Middle East scholar at the University of Maryland: "Hamas, given the scale of the losses, isn't going to turn and accept a cease-fire...