But she added scholars often debate whether such images turn people away from news, desensitize them or bolster a story's credibility.

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Shields, like many scholars of the abortion debate, doubts a victor will emerge anytime soon.

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Yet more scholars took up the debate, and two economists, U.C.

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Although scholars and historians continue to debate its origins, according to legend it was first displayed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, although this is widely regarded as mythology.

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At a time when many believed that the Harvard faculty had gotten a little one-sided in its viewpoint, she sought to recruit prominent conservative scholars and spur a healthy debate on campus.

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Scholars and pundits will continue to debate whether Iraq was a strategic success or failure, and much of their analysis will depend on what happens next.

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Prizes are a booming industry, with dozens of new ones launched by companies, billionaires and foundations over the last 15 years, but their impact on research is a topic of debate, with philanthropists and scholars disagreeing about whether they are a good way to produce better and more research.

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Since the development of SCF, the debate among Islamic, economic, and Shariah scholars continues over the propriety of this new field of Shariah scholarship.

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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.

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