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Niebuhr, an accomplished scholar and researcher, has relished his academic career...
...many women across the University, Rudenstine's decision to deny tenure to Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig, a woman scholar who is widely well-regarded by her peers, was proof that the president's private commitment to diversity does not match his public stance...
...Lowell House, the realization that this was a special place and a special time hit you very quickly. There, trudging along the walks in deep preoccupation, was the antifascist scholar in exile, Gaetano Salvemini, and there was the elegant figure of Heinrich Bruning, the former chancellor of Germany, forced to leave in 1934 and on the Harvard faculty since 1936. We weren't in Kansas anymore, Toto, nor in Oswego County, N.Y., which was more to the point...
Khatami, on the other hand, is a liberal theologian, a politician who speaks of freedom, a family man with an avuncular grin and a scholar who has worked in the West and is said to be at home in English, German and Arabic. That's quite a contrast to the severe and sober ayatullahs who have governed since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Five years ago, they drove Khatami from his Cabinet post as Minister of Culture, accusing him of allowing an "invasion" of decadent ideas from the U.S. and Europe. When the elections came due, the ruling mullahs thought...
Tarzan's creator, novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, felt that many of the films made a mockery of his books: Burroughs' hero speaks the King's English; the celluloid Tarzan grunts. But the campiness of the movies is, of course, what makes them so much fun. Unless you are Tarzan scholar George McWhorter, who believes Tarzan appeals because he "represents freedom of choice." For TV viewers, this summer at least, Tarzan represents freedom from reruns of Suddenly Susan...