Word: agee
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...central Oklahoma and then from Yale's Divinity and Law Schools, the volunteer for both John and Robert Kennedy who engineered George McGovern's capture of the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, portrayed himself in 1984 as the man who would move his party and the country into a new age. It almost worked. Now the self- described antipolitician is in the unaccustomed position of being the front runner for the Democratic nomination, and, for the moment, he is biding his time. Lean and efficient, Hart is the Voyager of American politics -- carefully designed, technically innovative and built for a long...
During the 1984 campaign, Hart was pricked by questions about discrepancies in accounts of his age (he was born in 1936, not 1937 as one official resume said) and the shortening of his name from Hartpence. The points grew in significance when Hart faltered in explaining them. His aides recently persuaded him to write an autobiographical article, "One Man's Luck," that would answer those lingering questions and dispel the sense that he was detached from his own roots. The article, which has not been published, reveals much about Hart's boyhood and his early hopes and dreams but offers...
...colleges for this, saying they fail in their vaunted claim to teach people to think. But two researchers who have devised a new way to measure reasoning power now believe most college students are not ready for mature critical thinking. Wisdom, the researchers suggest, really does come only with age...
...Some claim that we can teach critical thinking to people of any age if we can figure out how to do it," says Karen Strohm Kitchener, 43, assistant professor of education at the University of Denver. "What we are saying is that ((such thinking)) is a developmental process and that mature judgment doesn't develop until the middle or often the late...
King and Kitchener's work departs from widely accepted theories like those of the celebrated Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. He also described levels of readiness for certain kinds of reasoning, concluding that logical thought begins by age 7 and by 12 escalates to the ability to deal with abstractions like the future. "His emphasis was on logical reasoning," says King. "We are looking at a different domain of problem solving." In that domain, adds Kitchener, "logic alone is not enough for mature judgments...