Word: scholarships
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...strengths of the currently existingdepartment at Harvard--the scholarship andrenown...the vitality of the junior and visitingprofessors...the strength of the undergraduate andgraduate products of the department...are not tobe abandoned lightly," said Yale's linguisticsdepartment chair Lawrence R. Horn in a letter ofcomplaint to Wolff...
...application are inundated with piles of brochures and catalogs--the junk mail of the educated world. Further on in the process, they might be recruited, with all the associated perks--"red carpet tour days," "dinners with the dean," large aid packages, and in some cases, full scholarship offers...
Karen Armstrong, 48, who wrote A History of God, has impressively wide scholarship and strong ecumenical credentials. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, part of the time studying literature at St. Anne's College, Oxford. It was there that she began to question the teachings of the church and decided, after considerable agony, to leave her order. She lives alone in north London and teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism. Armstrong has written 10 books, including an account of her convent years, Through the Narrow Gate, and a well-regarded biography...
...mother she was never Alice Metzinger, the teacher and restaurant consultant who lived an exemplary life in Oregon. To her mother she was Kathy, a daughter she had last seen 23 years ago on a weekend visit from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The National Merit scholarship finalist, the winner of a Betty Crocker Homemaker award, the valedictorian of Marycrest, her Catholic high school in Colorado, Katherine Ann Power was the family's "pride and joy," says her older brother. She gave no hint that she was anything but a sweet and bookish child happy to be with the large...
Feminist legal scholar Catharine A. Mackinnon was denied tenure last spring, and some of her supporters felt that her controversial approach mattered as much as the quality of her scholarship in the decision...