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...proceeding that was fully open to the public, in which the jury expressed the conscience of the community. The founders contemplated that the jury would act as a source of wisdom and moderation, as the ultimate judge of fact and law; it was to act as a check in our constitutional system of checks and balances on the otherwise unchecked discretionary prosecutorial power of the executive. No citizen could have his liberty taken away without the unanimous consent of an empowered, powerful jury of his peers. Participation in jury service used to be the most direct act of civic responsibility...
...exists. The jury’s function has been degraded over time to that of mere fact-finder. Now, we jurors serve only as subsidiary functionaries, determining whether the letter of the law has been broken. Arguments addressed to the jury’s wisdom and rightful power to check prosecutorial discretion are repressed as nullification. Jury service has become boring, often meaningless, and it is seen as a burden. We need to look back to our founding fathers. They intended the jury to be the bulwark of our liberty. Our modern juries should be and do no less...
...attention to his financial guru at the November Faculty meeting: he had asked “Brett Sweet and others” to research Harvard’s coping mechanisms during past recessions. In a rare moment of uncertainty at the next meeting, Smith stopped mid-thought to double-check a fact with Sweet, who sat on the sidelines. “Yes,” Sweet quietly affirmed, nodding...
...Buckler says she hopes that students will find Gen Ed courses to be “an actual experience that really counts for something.” “[Gen Ed classes] should feel real—not something you just have to sleepwalk through so you can check off the box,” Buckler says. “It shouldn’t feel arcane or ‘academic.’ It should feel like a mind-opening kind of experience—accessible yet really stimulating, even transformative.” She paused...
...arty’ part of it—how can you mix data and judgment—that’s a hard topic,” Stein says.COMMON SENSEAcademicians are increasingly echoing the public call to embrace “common sense” as a reality check when models output projections that suggest untenable growth.“I think we’ve learned a lesson about the limits of [quantitative modeling],” Stein says. “There’s a need to overlay it with softer, more qualitative judgment...