Word: scholarly
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...think providing more leverage to consumers is best for our economy in the long-term," says Adam Lerrick, who is a visiting scholar the conservative-leaning Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute. "The consensus is that consumers have borrowed too much over the past 10 years, so I don't get why putting them further into debt is the answer." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...touch. “There was a feeling he hadn’t paid his dues,” said Andrew Cohen, an associate professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University and a prominent Canadian journalist. “Canadians knew him as a writer, a scholar, a polemicist, but they did not know him.” Cohen said Ignatieff’s image has improved since 2006, after two years spent as deputy leader of the party. “He’s much better positioned this time,” said Cohen...
There's a lot of mythology, some of it involving the East. There was a German scholar who claimed in the 1940s that Jesus traveled the Silk Road, lived in India and may have visited a monastery in Lhasa where there were Buddhist texts. The church of St. Thomas in India's Kerala state is the only place where Christ is not pictured on a cross but in a meditative samadhi posture. I also researched that period in history for Jesus's religious context, political and cultural contexts, the Jewish sects at the time, the occupation by Rome. Then...
...suppression of apostasy, or religious disaffiliation, with the growth of Orthodox politics in Yemen was the focus of a talk given yesterday by Stacey Philbrick Yadav, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies...
...story, "Visiting Scholar Addresses Islamic Politics in Yemen," contained a number of factual errors. The story referred to the practice of declaring that another has given up faith in Islam as "tut phir" instead of "takfir," misstated the title of the talk, and misquoted the speaker as saying "comparative politics" when she in fact said "competitive politics...