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...outside a pizza parlor, he beat his adversary so severely that he was eventually arrested and charged as a juvenile with felony assault. Tillman entered a guilty plea, and the following summer spent 30 days in a juvenile-detention facility, all the while worrying that he might lose the scholarship offered him by Arizona State. He didn't, and on his release his conviction was reduced to a misdemeanor. Years later he discussed the episode with a writer from Sports Illustrated. "I learned more from that one bad decision than all the good decisions I've ever made," he said...
...include a commitment from Harvard to build a new, low-cost day-care center for the children of employees. Twelve years later, there’s still no day care center, and most working mothers agree that federally subsidized child-care vouchers and a union-sponsored “scholarship fund” still do not cover the high cost of private day care in the Boston area. Meanwhile, dental hygienists in HUCTW are being forced to give up their afternoon flex time and work 9-5 every weekday, leaving their kids home alone for hours. Maybe Harvard?...
...things I loved to do in my life were tennis, and scholarship and writing. I got sidetracked for a bit,” he said...
...Islam, the Koran and Muslim attitudes toward Americans. The teacher was Bernard Lewis, now 87, who first studied the Islamic world in his native London in the 1930s and--with a break spent serving in British intelligence during World War II--has been engaged in a life of scholarship ever since. But it is only in the past few years that the depth of Lewis' influence on key U.S. policymakers has become clear...
...system of social thought is the most elaborate and methodical in the contemporary world, which is why he is often cited as a sage by people who would rather chew glass than read his lumbering prose. But it is the awesome yet careful architecture of Jurgen Habermas' lifetime of scholarship that undergirds his reputation as an independent commentator on most of the ills of the contemporary world. Reason, for this 74-year-old German philosopher-sociologist, is practical, and reason is rooted in the ability to communicate clearly with one another. When people of different cultures come together to speak...