Word: learnedness
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This doesn’t mean I don’t get a bit frustrated when the Eliot House e-mail list erupts into a “debate” over the political issue du jour, when some student group sets out to “solve?...
Truthfully, like most, I won’t remember much of what I learned in my classes. I can say, however, that I leave here with a rejuvenated sense of what is important in the world, and a heightened appreciation of the mystery, splendor—and as on Lake...
Fortunately, there are many in the community who hold that the mission of higher education requires values other than money—the not-so-corporate vow of “Veritas,” for example, or principles of justice, accountability, sustainability, peace, and freedom. Ours is the generation...
Twenty-two years ago, a young man named Marion Coakley was convicted of robbing and brutally raping a mother of five. But with eight witnesses and a priest corroborating Coakley's alibi, his South Bronx community believed in his innocence. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who had once worked together...
Not all prosecutors have been so helpful. In the program's early days, its attorneys were often told by prosecutors that evidence was not available when, in fact, it was. "We took people's word and it turns out we couldn't," Neufeld says. But they have learned from the...