Word: scholarly
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...approach her once about staying, she said.“As you might imagine, I cannot talk about the departure of any specific faculty member,” Cutler said in an e-mail. “I can only say that Lisa Martin is a terrific scholar, a wonderful person, and a great teacher. I wish her all the best.”After a few months, Harvard made a counter-offer, but Martin, who was hoping to move to a new home, said that although the University’s new housing package was structured differently...
...should make it openly clear that [it] cannot wait for Pakistan to [take decisive action] and will have to treat Pakistani territory as a combat zone if Pakistan does not act," wrote military scholar Anthony Cordesman of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies last month. "Pakistan cannot both claim sovereignty and allow hostile non-state actors to attack Afghanistan [and] U.S. and NATO/ISAF forces [there] from its soil...
...cargo planes - suggests an Iraqi government eager to fight its own battles without U.S. help. "Given Iraq's history and its location, it's going to create regular forces that are capable of not simply dealing with an insurgency but defending the country," says Anthony Cordesman, a military scholar with the Center for Strategic and Independent Studies. "And when a country is looking for prestige - a symbol of coming back as a fully operating nation - you're going to have to have modern weapons, and among the choices Iraq has, the F-16 is a very good...
...What we are seeing is some prospect of the de-escalation of conflict between the two peoples, but it's not going to be easy," says former U.S. ambassador to Turkey Mark Parris, currently a scholar at the Brookings Institution. "Both capitals have wanted to find a solution for some time, but third parties - including Azerbaijan, in the case of Turkey, and the Armenian diaspora, in the case of Yerevan - have militated against...
...some luck, but I don't want to say it's just luck," Shiller says. "It was also me thinking something crazy was going on here, and I just wanted to say it." This is not some Wall Street sharpie talking, but a floppy-haired, 62-year-old scholar with a gentle, meandering way of explaining the world. Shiller's new book, The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It, offers a succinct sample of this worldview, which we'll get to. First, though, a little intellectual history...