Word: scholarly
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...passionately engaged and committed to social change. I regard him as an important contemporary thinker who is determined to shatter partisan stereotypes and defy censorship wherever it occurs--notably, in this case, in the area of discourse on race, which is befogged with sanctimony and hypocrisy. As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. CAMILLE PAGLIA PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES University of the Arts Philadelphia
Illustrating the need to connect with constituents, Edwards offered the example of David Boren, a Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar who attended the University of Oklahoma's law school before winning a seat on the United States Senate...
Raymond Vernon, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and renowned multinational business scholar, died on August 26 due to complications from cancer...
...Vernon was considered the premiere scholar of the multi-national enterprise," said Porter, Vernon's colleague at KSG. "He was an astonishingly active member of the Center for Business and Government, regularly teaching two superb courses each year and continuing his steady stream of seminal books and articles...
...prefer to view their books' appeal in less secular terms. "People," says LaHaye, "are beginning to realize that something in this world is happening that has never happened before. The technology is going out of sight, one-world mania seems to be gripping the world." A self-described "prophecy scholar" and minister for more than 50 years, LaHaye, 73, concerns himself less with the books' prose than with their biblical underpinnings, turning ancient references to plagues and famines, wars and storms into crisp, modern plot points. "I prepare a 30-to-50-page proposal, with Scripture teachings," he says. "Then...