Today's revisionist scholars often prefer their own theories to historical facts, but Prof.
During their time on campus, the fellows study with some of the world's leading scholars and experts in disciplines ranging from business to law to public policy to the natural sciences.
Yet another new paper, by Dale Jorgenson of Harvard University, one of the world's leading scholars in this field, and Kevin Stiroh of the New York Fed, has also weighed into the debate.
Six of Japan's top art scholars selected pieces spanning 3, 000 years of Western art for reproduction.
We are less able to attract or keep the world's most gifted scholars than we once were.
Most remarkable of all, Shanghai's new Jewish scholars are all Chinese.
Of this year's 141 Presidential Scholars, 107 attend public schools.
The arrival in Britain this week of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the world's top Islamic scholars, drew furious denunciations from some members of Parliament and the tabloid press.
"The problem with talking about the economic future of Iraq is that you must always make a political assumption about the country, " says economics Professor Edith Penrose of France's Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires, one of Europ's ranking Iraq scholars.
Portions of Yoshio Kishi's collection will be available to scholars and the general public at NYU's library.
But whatever the data's academic value, scholars like Owens find themselves struggling to convince companies to turn over the information.
Its Global Muslim Women's Shura Council of scholars and activists were so compelled by the level of violence against women that they published " Jihad Against Violence, " (PDF) a report that condemns both violent extremism and domestic violence.
The result is that many of Indonesia's ulama, or religious scholars, turn out to become modern intellectuals.
I'm reminded of the 2009 incident involving Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, one of the nation's top African-American scholars.
There is hopeful talk of defections from the Taliban's hard core of religious scholars, but no real sign of it.
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Europe's medieval monastic tradition created scholars, true, but only a relative handful.
Some of Sufism's most esteemed poets and scholars are women.
The Vatican insists that as Pius XII, Pacelli worked hard behind the scenes to help save Europe's Jews, but many scholars accuse him of not having done enough to prevent the Holocaust.
Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference in Washington, said many scholars acknowledge Serra's complicated legacy.
Nonetheless, Milton has gradually come to share some of his wife's scepticism on the objectivity of scholars.
Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Pimps Up, Ho's Down), and younger scholars such as James Peterson, Meta DuEwa Jones, Dionne Bennett, Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Kyle Dargan, H.
Sotheby's said a large number of scholars now agreed with the view that it was painted by Van Dyck towards the end of his time working with Rubens, around the period from 1617 to 1620.
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Indeed, some scholars believe that India's past neglect of its brethren abroad may have been a blessing in disguise.
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Biblical scholars have called Gibson's reading of the New Testament into question, and rumors abound that the script's sources include an 18th-century Roman Catholic mystic.
Many scholars contest the shroud's authenticity, saying it dates to the Middle Ages, when many purported biblical relics -- like splinters from Jesus' cross -- surfaced across Europe.
Biblical scholars and clergy say there's no evidence of a cover-up or conspiracy to suppress those ideas.
In recent weeks, a number of commentators and legal scholars have recognized that U.S. patent law needs additional reform.
Ebert chaired the AFI AWARDS jury of critics, filmmakers and scholars who selected the year's 10 best films in 2004.
The resulting composition, known as Albinoni's Adagio, bears little resemblance to most of Albinoni's work and is considered fraudulent by most scholars.
Some scholars, such as Harvard's William Julius Wilson, place part of the blame for family breakdown on the poor job prospects for unskilled men, which make them less attractive to keep around as husbands and fathers.
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