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President Bush has nominated Robert Finn, a visiting lecturer in Near Eastern studies, as ambassador to Afghanistan. Finn was ambassador to Tajikistan from 1998 to 2001. He served at the U.S. Embassy in Croatia, opened the U.S. Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1992 and was deputy coordinator of the Kuwait task force during the Gulf War. He also served as deputy principal officer at the American Consulate General in Lahore, Pakistan, from 1984 to 1986. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Finn earned master's and doctoral degrees in Near Eastern studies from Princeton in 1976 and 1978, respectively. His appointment requires Senate approval. Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, has been chosen for the 2002 Richard Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters. The award recognizes scholars who "cherish the ideals of civic order and human dignity," according to the Ingersoll Foundation, which presents it. George will receive $25,000, and a two-day symposium will be held in his honor at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina on "Natural Law and Public Policy," the topic that George selected. Eight papers will be delivered during the Oct. 18-19 conference by speakers chosen by George. A scholar in theories of law, natural law theories, constitutional law and theory, and problems of religion and politics, George is director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. He is the author of many books and articles, including "In Defense of Natural Law" and, most recently, "The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Morality and Religion in Crisis." The selection of the Weaver award winner is overseen by the director of the Bradley Institute for the Study of Christian Culture at Belmont Abbey College and the president of the Ingersoll Foundation, a philanthropic organization founded by the Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. of Rockford, Ill. The award is given annually in honor of scholar Richard
Weaver, the author of "Ideas Have Consequences." Past
winners include sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, historian of
slavery Eugene Genovese and Soviet specialist Robert
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March 11, 2002 Contents In the news People Sections
Editor: Ruth Stevens |
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