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...publicly revealed her identity on the last day of the trial, as "no shrinking violet" and her husband, first cousin Allen Steed as a "milquetoast," not a rapist. She had flirted and enticed her husband, Bugden said. It was an old, familiar tactic in rape cases. But prosecutor Brock Belnap won the day by arguing that what Jeffs did by urging the two to "go forth and multiply" was no different from sacrificing a young virgin for the harvest - a religious belief, but a criminal act. "This trial has not been about religion and a vendetta," Walls said...
Such a system would not work at research-oriented Harvard, says Belnap, because faculty do not wish to spend time in the classroom outside their specialty...
...Harvard faculty members] are more involved with their particular corners of the field," says Columbia Professor of Russian Robert L. Belnap. "It takes a faculty more involved with the overall picture" of liberal arts to create a program like Columbia's "Contemporary Civilization" curriculum...
...Belnap also says that Columbia's survey courses provide educational benefits for the faculty who teach them...
...specialty is Dostoevsky, but the fact I have to read Homer and Dante every year makes me a better scholar than I ever was," Belnap says...