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Francis Abiola Irele, “by all accounts the dominant scholar in the field of Francophone African literature,” according to Gates, was hired in the spring...
...Charged. Yang Jianli, 39, scholar and pro-democracy activist arrested last April while allegedly trying to use someone else's passport to board a plane in Kunming, China; with espionage and entering the country illegally; in Beijing. Yang, a Chinese citizen with permanent U.S. residency, entered China to research labor unrest in the northeast...
...late-blooming Rush as challenging and surprising and uncompromising as ever. Ray Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is sexy, beautiful, 10 years younger - and bored out of her mind in Botswana. Her unhappiness eats away at Ray's sense of self-worth, as does her increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay and witty younger brother Rex, from...
Still, Spence’s report praised Safran, saying that “his erudition and objectivity as a scholar have not been questioned and are not in question despite the recent controversy.” Spence said he accepted the resignation with “sadness and deep reservation...
Though each scholar pursues a project in his or her field of expertise, they are also grouped into academic “clusters”—related fields of study—for optimal collaboration...