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...some historians have begun to criticize the museum, saying there's too much razzle-dazzle and not enough scholarship. "The rubber Lincolns make him remote, strange and mythological," says Simon, of Southern Illinois University. "They've made him into a vulgar creature, not unlike Ronald McDonald welcoming you to his hamburger place." Counters Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar and co-chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission: "In an era where we battle iPods and MTV for attention, anything that encourages future exploration is good." --By Kristin Kloberdanz
Less gently, a dean at a rival school asserts that Harvard is now "an extremely unpleasant and politicized environment," adding that "those who want to work on scholarship don't want to waste a lot of time on internecine war." Indeed, the Cambridge institution has had unaccustomed recruiting trouble. Despite its continued prestige, Harvard has not hired any professor from another law school for a tenured position since 1981, either because candidates have failed to win approval from the divided faculty or because those on whom compromise was finally achieved declined the offers. One professor already at the school...
...Follow the ore. Perhaps a future Chinese president will have gained a Rio Tinto scholarship to study at the Australian National University or honed her engineering skills at a Pilbara mine. Beyond this week's landmark visit by Prime Minister Howard, Australia's quiet revolution will continue. The long view could be just as surprising for 1.3 billion Chinese...
...said he plans to continue teaching and will remain the director of the Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute—which awards fellowships to promote scholarship in African and African American studies...
Patrick was born into poverty but gained a scholarship to attend Milton Academy in Milton, Mass. After completing his undergraduate studies at the College, he went on to Harvard Law School, where he received his J.D. in 1982. Patrick’s wife, Diane, served as director of Harvard’s Office of Human Resources...