Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything in your power to encourage Harvard graduates to enter the military. Being educated in the open-minded, liberal environment of Harvard has certainly made me better prepared to deal with the issue of homsexuality should it arise during my military career. Denying a Harvard student a ROTC scholarship does not mean that there will be one less officer in the military, it just means that officer will come from another source...almost certainly somplace that places less emphasis on civil liberties...
Whereas Harvard scholarship undergraduates do not receive benefits equivalent to those of undergraduates with ROTC on their campus...
Brady encircles his outsize subject with equal parts of anecdote and scholarship. He does not attempt the intimate tone of Barbara Leaming's authorized 1983 biography or try for the high-skid finish of Charles Higham's Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius (1985). Citizen Welles covers more ground and digs deeper, revealing an artistic nomad whose life had too many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence...
Players like former Iowa footballer Ronnie Harmon, now a pro with the Buffalo Bills, told of signing surreptitiously with Walters and Bloom and getting thousands in "loans," meanwhile receiving college scholarship money and taking such courses as bowling, billiards and watercolor painting. The agents used links to organized crime to keep their clients in line. The Chicago Bears' Maurice Douglass testified that when he tried to get out of his contract while a senior at the University of Kentucky, Bloom threatened to have somebody break his legs. The verdict, suggested U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas, sent a different but equally tough...
...study of government by and large ignores women's political participation and scholarship. The required tutorials should include more discussions of how women fit into the issues being studied...