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Fortunately this is not the case. West’s departure liberated, rather than doomed AAAS; its scholarship has progressed not in spite of, but precisely because of his absence. West is a virtuoso indeed—in every pursuit (film acting, political consulting, autobiographical writing, musical recording) but serious research and analysis. Far from providing the AAAS clout, West stifled its real scholastic accomplishments with the oversize presence of a top-notch showman...
...think that they believe their grandchildren will live under this system unchanged. They allowed the book Studying in America by Qian Ning, son of [former vice premier] Qian Qichen, to be published. He was working at the People's Daily, went to the University of Michigan on a scholarship immediately after Tiananmen, and he wrote the book three or four years later. He had an impeccable communist pedigree, but what he wrote was quite subversive. When he arrived at Ann Arbor that summer of 1989, he suddenly realized that life consisted also of parties, barbecues, great friendships, not this hothouse...
...nonprofit sector over the past decade--and to concerns that some institutions are scamming the system by seeking tax-exempt status. The Internal Revenue Service lists more than 1.8 million charities, up from 739,000 charities 25 years ago. The tax-exempt sector includes not just soup kitchens and scholarship funds but also labor unions, hospitals, the NCAA--even Major League Baseball. "Today you see nonprofit holding companies," says Minnesota state attorney general Mike Hatch, who has aggressively pushed for better nonprofit governance. "We're dealing with multibillion-dollar enterprises, many times with no tie to the community...
...Huma’s intellectual curiosity and the quality of her scholarship have earned her the very high opinion of the History department faculty,” Janna Wasilewski, Farid’s thesis advisor, writes. Recently, a woman verbally assaulted Farid near the Yard, allegedly because Farid wears hejab, the Islamic headscarf...
...just seemed like a very straightforward development along the lines of the ties of friendship that we’ve had for generations,” Cole said. “In the light of Harvard’s commitment to engage more broadly in international scholarship, to increase the opportunities for our students to study abroad, and to better understand other societies and cultures, the gift of this collection from Harvard to [Sun Yat-sen] has created an important bridge,” Cline wrote in an e-mail response forwarded to The Crimson by Brainard. According to Cheng...