scholar
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Edward H. Levi, a respected legal scholar who served as Ford’s attorney general, began working to mend the department from within, which included limiting the scope and power of the FBI.
From Salon
Though scholars have traced the origins of nearly all the six score or so known Lincoln photos, this one remained undocumented.
One of our more bracing memories is a lunch at the Cato Institute with a dozen or so of its scholars.
Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China.
He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.
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