Word: scholarly
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...fact that Fine himself is looking into it is a troubling development for Gonzales. A former Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law School graduate, Fine is well respected in Washington and has the kind of credibility that could damage Gonzales and the Bush Administration in ways that political players, like Leahy and New York Senator Chuck Schumer can't. Fine's office told the National Journal recently that he would issue a report "expeditiously...
Near the start of his new book, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, the historian Ramachandra Guha writes that one of his goals is to solve "the puzzle that has for so long confronted scholar and citizen, foreigner as well as native-namely, why is there an India at all?" India's colorful history spans millenniums, but arguably its most vivid era began in 1947, when the newly independent nation embarked on the unprecedented experiment of democracy. Its survival as a unified country, and as a democracy, against immense odds-crushing poverty, hostile neighbors, secessionist...
Next year, Wilner will take part in the Philosphy, Policy, and Economics program at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. As for McNamara, he will be in Mississippi with Teach for America...
...small group, led by Cabot House master and Jewish studies scholar Jay M. Harris, will be given the trust and the power to move general education from the debating chamber of University Hall into Harvard’s classrooms...
...Martha Nussbaum, a visiting scholar at Radcliffe who has been at the forefront of the campaign, cast the decision as a good start in what should be a long-term shift toward gentler food products. The next step? According to Nussbaum, it’s time for free-range beef in the dining halls...