Word: hutcheson
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...truths that Jefferson famously declared to be "self-evident" were not new. He drew his ideas from an extraordinarily wide range of reading, especially from the works of Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke, and from the Scottish moral philosophers--Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, David Hume, Adam Smith...
...like assigning homework. She guesses about 15% in her class actually do it, which means she can't base Tuesday's class on readings that no one did the night before. Bright kids get bored; slow kids get lost; the kids in the middle muddle through. Her colleague Bob Hutcheson puts it this way: "I wonder if among their peers, there isn't a certain norm of mediocrity. And if they shoot for the middle, they'll always settle for less...
...four-year course of study, the Pegasites, as they are known, often travel in a pack. And you'll more likely find them rehashing the National Honor Society barbecue than last weekend's parties. "It can be a very bright and interesting group," says its co-coordinator Bob Hutcheson. "But it's a group with its own set of problems, like when failure is getting just an 80 on a test...
...enough by tales of 24-year-old Internet millionaires to realize that the fast track runs year-round. "The job market is as strong as we have seen it in decades, but there's a signal pressure--a race to be more qualified than the next person," says Philo Hutcheson, a professor of education at Georgia State University...
...have shown up at the South Carolina Historical Society, seeking to make similar connections. Filmmaker Macky Alston, who sought Ball's advice, won the Sundance Freedom of Expression award this year for Family Name, a documentary of his search for descendants of Alston slaves. Another Ball convert is Allen Hutcheson, 24, a descendant of the man believed to be the model for Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. "We have to find these people," he says of his family's former slaves. "You have to cut the wound open to get the poison out," agrees Ball. "I believe...