Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longtime Boston Globe columnist is able to take complex aspects of econometric theory and make them simple. He is able to take dry debates over interventionist versus laissez-faire governments and make them come alive. And he does so without diminishing the level of debate ands scholarship behind the many conflicting theories and theoretical styles...
...Lowell's vision of what the social life of the Houses could bring about. "One object of the University is to counteract rather than copy the defects of the day," he said. "It is in the College that the character ought to be shaped, aspirations formed, citizens trained, and scholarship implanted." He added: "In relations of undergraduates to one another, might there not be more points of intellectual contact and might not considerable numbers of students have much in common...
...central notion that legal scholarship and experience are of paramount importance in the selection and confirmation processes seems to have drowned under the tide of special-interests that have bastardized the last three Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Unfortunately, Clinton seems intent on continuing this tragic decline--this summer, he promised a pro-choice nominee...
...that there is anything wrong with being pro-choice. But a pro-choice stance for a judge must be a byproduct of larger judicial scholarship. And that scholarship should be the only factor in the nomination...
...irrelevant statements could cloak the fact that Thomas was not the most qualified person for the highest bench in the land. Nor could they mask the truth: Thomas was both nominated and attacked out of purely political motives. If we are ever to have another Justice chosen for legal scholarship and not political palatability, this partisan poisoning of the process must stop...