New York University's philosophy department buys star scholars to enhance its prestige and uses cheap adjuncts to teach undergraduates.
The government frets about the failure of a Chinese scholar ever to win a Nobel prize in science (although the country has a laureate for literature and an unwelcome winner in 2010 of the Nobel peace prize, Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned dissident).Pulling some star scholars back from abroad will not be enough to turn China into an academic giant.
He has aggressively recruited star scholars, like the economists Paul Romer and Tom Sargent and the physicist Paul Chaikin, from higher-ranked schools, paying what he called "meritocratic rates," which compensate them more generously than professors who have been tenured longer.
Another phenomenon affecting rising costs is the perceived need to attract star scholars with attractive salaries, research support (including laboratory space), and light teaching loads all because star scholars also affect rankings favorably.
Introduced to basketball at age 15, Mr. Foyle became, in order, athlete, immigrant, star, scholar, National Basketball Association player, labor activist and, soon, United States citizen.
With his soft voice, denim jacket and unruly dark hair, Mr. Hardt looks and sounds more like an idealistic graduate student than a rapidly rising star scholar.
A star scholar-athlete at his NYC public school, Francisco wins a full scholarship to a prestigious upstate prep school for his senior year.
Soliloquy by soliloquy, line by line, and finally word by word, Rosenbaum and a roster of all-star scholars (who endlessly feud and squabble with one another, vying for power on a tiny stage) weigh the urgent question of whether Shakespeare was a spouting poetic fountainhead, whose output fell perfectly upon the page, or a deliberate literary craftsman who revised his works as he grew older.
Its effect here is to saddle us with two Mr. Spocks, one from the vulnerable present and one from the comforting future, and its main purpose, I suspect, is to drag in Leonard Nimoy, who these days makes Bela Lugosi look like Zac Efron, and thus insure that all the "Star Trek" scholars in the audience will have to hurry home and change their underwear.
The ranters seem to forget that Jesus and his family were Jewish and that three Persian Zoroastrian priests, called the magi or three kings, came from the east because they saw a star (some scholars think the idea of a messiah first came from Persia because the first person called a messiah or Christ in the Bible was Cyrus, the Persian King, a Zoroastrian himself).
He was barely memorable, not a star athlete, scholar, artist, actor, surfer or class clown.
