Word: scholarshipped
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...book, Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay policy is more reminiscent of her work of heresy and orthodoxy in early modern England than it is like other scholarship on the issue, she said...
Krug's English department colleagues also praised her scholarship and teaching abilities...
...broad outlines of Viking culture and achievement have been known to experts for decades, but a spate of new scholarship, based largely on archaeological excavations in Europe, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, has begun to fill in the elusive details. And now the rest of us have a chance to share in those discoveries with the opening last week of a wonderfully rich exhibition titled "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga" at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington...
...Miriam doesn't know, but readers do, since Brown's narrative moves back and forth between the minds of mother and daughter. And it turns out that Veronica Reece, or Ronnee, as she prefers to be called, has accepted, over her militant father's objections, a modest scholarship to Stanford University. He derides the offer as a "Pity the Poor Nigger Scholarship" and tells Ronnee, "You're there, darlin', so their brochures will look good." Since he on principle won't help defray her college expenses, Ronnee wonders if this rich white mother in Texas she's heard about might...
...this juncture, the two recruiting processes diverge. Large schools with impressive athletic programs emphasize the facilities, professional exposure, high-level competition, and, of course, the possibility of an athletic scholarship...