Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found in the playbooks made their way into the sports section. Brent Fullwood of the Packers, Paul Palmer of the Chiefs and Ronnie Harmon of the Bills headed a list of 43 named but unindicted former Walters and Bloom clients who cut pretrial deals involving community service and scholarship refunds. So sports are not above the law after...
...prestige so that many scholars are willing to make the sacrifice -- for a limited period. Georgetown's outgoing dean, Robert Pitofsky, has found his five years in office "very gratifying," but looks forward to resuming full-time teaching of antitrust law next year. "A deanship takes you away from scholarship," he says. "These jobs are best done on a one-term basis...
Douglas Ginsburg was a Baby Boomer of sorts himself, and though not a political candidate, he would have been the first of his generation to have become a Supreme Court justice. But he too fell victim to the same pattern. It began with questions about his competence: What scholarship had he really done? How many cases had he ever argued? Had he proved himself as a legal mind worthy of the Court? Soon it mushroomed into questions about his character, with the final blow being the revelation that he smoked marijuana while a Harvard law professor...
...fact, the translating process has led the Jerusalem team to the unusual conclusion that the Gospel of Luke is the oldest and closest to Jesus' original words, whereas most conventional scholarship gives that distinction to Mark. Unlike most experts, they also believe that Jesus' sayings and actions were first recorded -- in a now lost Hebrew document -- within a few years of his death on the Cross, not put down by his followers decades later...
Roman Catholicism has just begun to grapple with the awareness that liberal scholarship may pose a threat to dogma. "Sometimes I ask my Catholic counterparts why they must make all the same mistakes in 20 years when we Protestant theologians needed over 200 years," jests Tubingen's Hengel. Conservative Catholics hope Ratzinger will strike at this threat, but the Cardinal is said to oppose a return to Rome's earlier proclamations on the Bible's complete historical reliability. He seems to prefer intellectual counteroffensives to decrees and crackdowns...