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...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 beautiful, sexy, 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, witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly...
...decided in the end that I wanted to donate to Yale.” Gates said. “I felt that I owed Yale so much. Yale brought me into this world, the world of the scholar and the intellectual...
...always been a scholar all my life,” he says. “Instead of a usual mid-life crisis, I had a mid-life change to take on the library...
...fund’s founder, Thomas T. Hoopes ’19, was himself a devoted scholar...
...branches of the University agree that there should be no a priori restrictions on research or publication when a scholar begins a project, she said...