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...deeper reason Kissinger enjoys such support from the leadership: he seems to agree with them on the paramount importance of stability. As the author Robert D. Kaplan has suggested, for Kissinger "the key word is 'revolution,' something that [his] experience as a youth [in Nazi Germany], augmented by scholarship, taught him to fear." Deng Xiaoping cleared Tiananmen Square by force in 1989 in part because of vivid memories of the luan, or chaos, caused by rampaging Red Guards; Nazi Brown Shirts would have made a similar impression on Kissinger. Given this context, it's easier to comprehend the striking degree...
...orgasmic pitch of inebriated patriotism. Everyone embracing and swaying to the music, we screamed, howled, shrieked the lyrics; a medley of monkeys that hardly knew the words, or even the tune really. A drunken girl from Arkansas (who had told me seven times she was applying for the Rhodes scholarship before falling unceremoniously to the floor) rushed up to us demanding to know what song this...
...Mohammed, now 26, seemed particularly gifted. As a youngster in the mid-'90s, he tried out for a spot in a local school for gifted kids, and got in. Studying medicine at the University of Jordan, his grades were exceptional. With such a strong track record, Asha won a scholarship to study neurology at University of Birmingham in central England...
Norman G. Finkelstein, the political science professor who also made the allegations of fraudulent scholarship concerning Dershowitz’s 2003 book “The Case for Israel,” saw his bid for job security denied on June 8. The tenure rejection came in part because of a record of “ad hominem attacks” that “divert the conversation away from consideration of ideas and polarize and simplify conversations that deserve layered and subtle consideration,” according to a notification letter from DePaul University President Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider...
...Born in Blytheville, Ark., Nannerl Overholser Keohane received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley in 1961. She studied at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship and earned a doctorate in political science from Yale University...