Word: scholarships
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...Feldstein] has been more successful than almost anybody else at combining distinguished scholarship and important involvement in economic policy," says Lawrence H. Summers, a Harvard economics professor currently serving as chief economist to the World Bank...
...Fulbright scholarship, Feldstein went on to study at Oxford University, where he received his master's and doctoral degrees and served as a research fellow and lecturer for several years...
Sennett, who teaches sociology at New York University, is a true humanist from the Renaissance mold, and his impressive scholarship is hemmed in by none of the constricting categories in which most of his colleagues in modern academia confine themselves...
...divinely inspired but childlike innocent endured well into this century. Only a few enthusiasts such as Sir Thomas Beecham and Artur Schnabel kept emphasizing the depth and drama in his later symphonies and piano works ("Too easy for students and too difficult for artists," said Schnabel). Serious scholarship helped; so did the revival of period instruments. The 1948 arrival of the LP record vastly broadened the availability of pre-Romantic music, and enabled lots of people to hear lots of Mozart for themselves. They loved...
Even The Lobby is under siege. A cascade of anti-AIPAC scholarship has chronicled the alleged power of pro-Israeli special interests to pervert the American national interest. Political action committees in general are under attack by politicians from both parties (AIPAC is not a PAC, but it controls an impressive array of PACs). And while The Lobby has always found its most receptive audience in Congress, the legislative branch's ability and willingness to influence American foreign policy is in rapid decline. Congress may still be browbeaten into large aid packages, but an executive branch less susceptible to AIPAC...