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...every life there is loss. [The novel] covers a broad spectrum of these people’s lives, and loss is just part of their life...
...tended to be narrower and more case specific than those of her fellow Justices, her reasoning less sweeping and ideological. "She was the court's leading minimalist," says Cass Sunstein, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, "taking one case at a time, distrusting broad rules and abstract theories...
...that a friend of hers, a graduate student from America, knew less chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education” belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student as a scholar and a citizen...
...conversation I remember vividly was about Tocqueville’s Democracy in America – not because of what was said, but because I had it with a math student. It became clear to me that the students of Cambridge are well-educated and well-read with a broad field of knowledge, even without the guidance of the Core. This should be no surprise – students as driven and ambitious as the ones at Cambridge or Harvard are often curious about fields other than their...
...convinced that writing papers and doing problem sets are neither bad habits to be dropped at 16 nor something fatal to one’s academic career. Perhaps the Core doesn’t provide a broad field of knowledge, but what it does is force us to overcome certain trepidations about our academic weaknesses. We lose that focus, perhaps, but we also shed that element of fear that my friends on this side of the pond can’t seem to shake...