Word: defectiveness
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Careful reasoning and analysis. Calling the dearth of this "the most serious defect of undergraduate education everywhere," Bok said the College should do more to improve students' reasoning abilities. The undergraduate curriculum should include more opportunities for active student involvement--which sections and tutorials provide more than do large lectures, Bok said...
...punishable by death, this defense often was the only way to spare someone from the gallows. Over the years, the standard became more cumbersome. The M'Naghten rule, devised by the English in 1843, declared that a defendant was not culpable if he "was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong...
...first lecture, "The Defect," will explain "how our conception [of government]came to be as narrow and skewed as it is," Will said. The second, "Second Nature," will deal with the involvement of morality in government. "A Conservative Political Economy," the third talk, will urge the adoption of conservative views...
...Benn wins this year or next, his election will affect not only the Labor Party. Large numbers of Labor voters-as well as some Labor M.P.s-could be expected to defect to the Social Democrats, who are already the most potent new force to arrive on the British political scene since the Labor Party itself was formed in 1900. The S.D.P. was founded last spring by the so-called Gang of Four-former Labor Cabinet Ministers Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and William Rodgers-after longstanding differences between Labor's left and right wings finally seemed irreconcilable. The Social Democrats...
...speed the process of decay in guerrilla ranks, the Thai government offers a generous amnesty program. So far this year more than 1,000 guerrillas in the northeast have defected. Those who defect are not asked to apologize or recant. They are generally given work on government construction projects or assisted with funds gathered by local merchants. Says Lieut. General Lak Salikupt, regional commander of the Second Army: "Persuasion is always more efficient than gunfire...