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• Butler Rubin Awards Diversity Scholarship to Ciji Pittman

  - 2008-02-14

  Law Student Becomes 3rd Scholarship Recipient CHICAGO -- Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP has awarded its annual diversity scholarship to University of Chicago Law School student Ciji Pittman. Pittman is the third scholarship recipient of the program Butler Rubin established to foster diversity in the legal profession. ...

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• Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology.(book)(anthropological biography)(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-01

  WILCOX, CLIFFORD. Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology. xi, 233 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004. [pounds sterling]35.00 cloth Biography and biographical analysis are not adequately utilized by historians of anthropology. In fact, there is only one current scholarly...

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• North American urban history: the everyday politics and spatial logics of metropolitan life.

  - 2003-09-22

  Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, North American urban history is flourishing. Compared to twenty-five years ago, the field has become more interdisciplinary and intellectually invigorating. Scholars are publishing increasingly sophisticated efforts to understand how the city as space intersects the...

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• Best & brightest.(Neighbor)

  - 2003-06-23

  - Scott W. Stephens of Mundelein and Daniel M. Catanzaro of Vernon Hills were named to the dean's list at Bradley University. - Sapna Thottathil of Ivanhoe has been named one of 890 Morris K. Udall Scholars nationwide for the 2003-2004 school year. Thottathil is...

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• Addison Trail's Czaja signs with Jacksonville State.(Sports)

  - 2002-11-20

  Byline: Dave Miller Daily Herald Sports Writer A batting coach paid off in more ways than one for Addison Trail's Katie Czaja. Czaja signed a National Letter of Intent Monday to play softball for Division I Jacksonville State in Alabama. The first...

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• Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King. (Book Reviews: India).(Book Review) (book review)

  - 2002-06-01

  HILTEBEITEL, ALF. Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 365 pages. Bibliography, index. Paper US$25.00/[pounds sterling] 16.00; ISBN 0-226-34054-6. Hardcover ISBN 0-226-34053-8. Although Hiltebeitel originally projected...

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• More Merit Scholars named.(News)

  - 2001-07-17

  Byline: Shruti Date Daily Herald Staff Writer National Merit Scholarship Program officials on Monday announced the second and final group of this year's college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients, including 10 from the Northwest suburbs. The students were among about 1,900 winners from across...

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• DuPage Collegians.(Neighbor)

  - 2000-12-29

  University of Illinois Kevin Williams of Bloomingdale has been awarded a James Newton Matthews Scholarship for academic excellence for incoming freshmen and returning scholars at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign campus. The scholarship is renewable each year for four years...

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• Presidency Research.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-12-01

  The Richard E. Neustadt Award, given for the best book published during the previous year that contributed to research and scholarship in the field of American presidency studies, was given to David Alistair Yalof of the University of Connecticut for his book, Pursuit of Justices: Presidential...

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• A Guide to Critical Legal Studies. (book reviews)

  - 1989-10-01

  A Guide to Critical Legal Studies Over the past decade and a half, two sharply different theories of law have emerged to challenge the dominant American philosophy of a pragmatic, process-oriented liberalism. The first is the law and economics school, incubated at the...

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