Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard CHANCE Tutor; Harvard College Scholarship; PEN Teacher; Harvard Islamic Society - Committee Chair; Harvard College Research Grant for Synthetic Organic Chemistry Research...
...importance of this kind of educational influence cannot be overestimated. However, scholarship is not the only way in which Harvard impacts the outside world. With an $11 billion endowment, Harvard also wields the financial power of a major corporation. The majority of Harvard's endowment is invested in an enormous stock portfolio of over 1450 companies and banks, under the direction of a Corporate Committee...
Mukunda also attacks the critical tone of U.S. historical scholarship. This is a serious misunderstanding of history as a discipline: we are engaged in the practice of critical thinking, investigation and argumentative scholarship. I believe that the critical eye of historians serves the ideals of democracy and equality much better than some antiquated "city on a hill" image of the United States...
...very pleased," says Gaddis. "One can always find portions with something this big and this extensive that one might have done differently. But I think it's fair and accurately reflects current cold-war scholarship." A recent finding from Soviet archives, for example, is that the Soviet leaders held their ideological views far more strongly than Western analysts had thought. The result was that the Soviets often acted against their best interests, mystifying those in the West, who believed the Soviets had a rational and cunning master plan. Comments in the series by former Soviet officials illustrate this new thesis...
...M.S.U. president MIKE MALONE to invoke the new campus antitobacco rule and cancel the event, sending national organizers off to look for a tobacco-friendly site, perhaps Oklahoma City or Las Vegas. One man's vice lord, of course, can be a cowboy's benefactor--U.S. Tobacco provides significant scholarship money to college cowboy and cowgirl athletes. Meanwhile, football season has been enthusiastically greeted by Malone, despite the beery atmosphere that tends to accompany the games...