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"I'm not looking only for eminent professors," he says. "There are some famous people who couldn't teach their way out of a wet paper bag."
The search committee for this year's professorship, chaired by Professor Peter Sacks, described Steiner as "one of the most eminent intellectuals of his generation," and "one of the world's great comparatists."
DIED. SIR DONALD BRADMAN, 92, self-taught cricket player and courtly Australian icon considered by many to be the pre-eminent sportsman of all time; in Adelaide, South Australia. His perch atop batting stats was said to be "as changeless as alphabetic order"; over his 20-year career, he racked...
Virtually no one in Mexico disputes Marcos's claim that the Indians of Chiapas have endured centuries of oppression. At the same time, as such eminent Mexican intellectuals as historian Enrique Krauze has been pointing out, Chiapas doesn't represent all of Mexico. And then there's the question of...
The profiles in this collection range from skater Tonya Harding and designer Bill Blass to Spain's pre-eminent female matador and New York City's pre-eminent vendor of ceiling fans. The metaphors in these wryly detached yet not dispassionate observations rarely miss. (Blass is described as someone who...