Word: factualism
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...does PLAP decide which problems to litigate? Gideons says that cases which raise important issues such as the First Amendment and which don't involve complex factual matters are best. That's because one difficulty in talking with inmates is telling fact from fiction, says Katherine Kennedy '82, a third-year student who has been interested in prison work since she tutored at MCI-Deer Island as an undergraduate. Kennedy emphasizes the importance of weeding out the facts of the case throughout the entire process...
...teach in a way which is "more precisely tailored to the one student you are teaching." He says he uses the opportunity to talk to the student rather than to lecture, describing his method as "Socratic browbeating. I want to make sure that he's gotten some of the factual information, then we explore the interpretive aspects...
...ways. The film's viewpoint is not the writer's, who in effect saw her subject from the air. The camera is firmly on the ground, looking for close-ups. The movie's manner is not the author's either. It is concerned with restoring what she left out: factual (as opposed to spiritual) biography of a conventional kind, drawn from Thurman's book, a study of Finch Hatton's life and Dinesen's letters, which are altogether more open than her book. Where the documents fail him, Screenwriter Luedtke improvises plausible fictions to fill the dramatic gaps...
...Reagan's dismal (and revealing) round one performance was disturbing, the case with which he regained his good standing was nothing less than horrifying. Despite an otherwise mediocre performance riddled with factual errors and lesser mental lapses, the president redeemed himself with a single one-liner in the second debate...
...despite widespread criticism, the conventional system of medical education--in which the first two years stress factual knowledge, while the last two emphasize clinical skill--has gone virtually unchanged for 30 years. Some critics have called it dehumanizing and disjointed, charging that too many physicians turned out through the traditional route have been insufficiently prepared to handle patients in a caring and effective...