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Thank you, Michael, for remembering�Vietnam veterans. I remember the Vietnam heroes who came home to unfair treatment. It's not too late to pay our respects. I would gladly pay taxes to give every Vietnam combat veteran a full college scholarship and proper medical care. And I'm sure there is much more that the veterans can tell us about--when they see that we really care...
Your report on James Cameron's documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus and books that challenge the Resurrection referred to "a more speculative style of scholarship" [March 12]. This is not about Christianity bashing, by either those in Hollywood or anyone else. It is merely the presentation of evidence that invites enlightened discussion. Although the dogma of the physical Resurrection might be called into question, faith in Jesus and his teachings should not be threatened by new findings...
Gerson himself knows that it is not. He admitted that “one of the worries that we have and the price of the fame of the scholarship is that a lot of successful American students, instead of asking, ‘What is it that I really want to do and why,’ ask themselves, ‘What is the next most competitive thing I can apply for?’” Queried whether Harvard pushes the Rhodes on unwilling victims, he attributed the unusual number of Harvard-educated scholars...
...respectively, a promissory note and two academic institutions. Beset by flaws as they may be, they, and the scholars affiliated with them, are fundamentally interested in intellectual inquiry and exploration. In an e-mail, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 portrayed the Rhodes scholarship as an invaluable opportunity to postpone professional advancement: “I studied law, which hasn’t been of much use in my subsequent career, but my Oxford experience as a whole has been profoundly important in shaping...
...what level of achievement does this stop? The answer is, of course, unclear—disquietingly so. Gerson spends “a great deal” of his time, “with very little success, advising Rhodes after their scholarship, to discourage them from applying to law school, asking them, ‘Do you really want to be lawyers?’” He explained: “Some of them don’t; law schools can be a wonderful experience, but many are just applying because it’s the next most...