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After participating in a rigorous application process, two College students have been awarded the prestigious Truman Scholarship, which provides $30,000 to college juniors for graduate study in fields related to public service...
Lenin's early death opened the way for the horrors of Stalin. Would Lenin have stopped them? The latest scholarship reminds us that Leninism was a brutal philosophy. As historian Helene d'Encausse wrote in her 2001 biography, "On the threshold of death, Lenin had hardly changed": he never backed away from the one-party, one-ideology, fiercely self-protecting state. When asked once why a group of political foes needed killing, Lenin had replied, "Don't you understand that if we do not shoot these few leaders we may be placed in a position where we would need...
...wasn't just his advanced degrees and his Fulbright scholarship that set Moynihan apart - there are plenty of intelligent members of Congress. Moynihan stood out because of his insistence on intellectual honesty and his unwillingness to walk away from a looming debate, no matter how messy it promised to be. Moynihan offered challenging, groundbreaking - sometimes even successful - solutions to perennial public policy dilemmas, including welfare and racism...
Increased publicity and sponsorship have made scholarship funds available for students from public schools in Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to travel to Guatemala for the conference, Shull said, whereas before this year only Guatemalan students would have been able...
...graduated at the top of his class from Camden High School, then attended Springfield College in Massachusetts on a scholarship. He graduated in 1941 with a degree in chemistry...