31.   But many American scholars and former administration officials have favored China, and see Taiwan as an obstacle to improved U.S.-China ties.

32.   Gibson plays Nick Orton, an American scholar and businessman who is lured into a magical world.

33.   He and BBC producer Susan Roberts posed as married American scholars looking into a kidney transplant for a sick uncle.

34.   He posed as an American scholar looking for a kidney transplant for a sick uncle.

35.   Singapore -- Contempt of court trial against an American scholar and the International Herald Tribune resumes.

36.   The accusation provides a footnote to the controversy over an IHT article last year by American scholar Christopher Lingle, which criticized the justice system in unnamed Asian countries.

37.   The debate began after the government sued an American scholar for libel over an article he wrote in October while working for the national university here.

38.   The Rhodes scholarship, created from the will of British philanthropist and colonialist Cecil Rhodes, is the oldest international study award available to American scholars.

39.   Lingle was not a party to that settlement, in which the Singapore patriarch reserved his right to resume legal action separately against the American scholar.