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Indeed, the tension created by these conflicting roles is what helps even the most workaday academic retain some independence of thought and intellectual vigour.
ECONOMIST: The tensions of modern education
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After my book, Stolen Without A Gun, came out in 2007, I had the opportunity to ask business and academic audiences who thought Sarbox was cleaning up American business.
FORBES: Sarbox Says: Dodd-Frank Will Fail
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Now, a glance at the New Haven Register or Hartford Courant shows that the argument about the death penalty - once thought to be purely academic in this part of America - is very much alive.
BBC: Brutal murders spark death penalty debate
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As far as I can see this is not intended in any sense as a rather sick academic exercise in stretching the bounds of what could be thought.
BBC: Why was the US military teaching 'total war' on Islam?
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These kinds of programs have national and international thought leaders in their fields presenting throughout the academic calendar at rounds, meetings, seminars, conferences on every important disease one might encounter as a practicing physician.
FORBES: What Do You Think Of The "Do Prestigious Residencies Mean Better Doctors?" Article In The Atlantic?
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At best Akamai looked like the folly of academic theorists who were not as clever as they thought.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Academic achievement would play second fiddle to the character and manliness thought to be inculcated by prestigious boarding schools.
ECONOMIST: Ivy League universities
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The bearded academic made headlines as investors braced themselves for what they thought would be a transcendental Jackson Hole speech, which, let many down. (Read The Failure Of QE2: A Look At Gold, Oil, Equities, Emerging Markets, And The Dollar).
FORBES: A Transcendental Q3 Comes To An End: Equities Erased All Their Gains For The Year
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Most academic Sovietologists thought their job was to try to understand the Soviet Union better.
ECONOMIST: Sovietology