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...Beyond the assumption that the world today needs to see U.S. leadership just as it did after 1945, there has also been a second item of implicit agreement between the candidates: that the performance of the U.S. in its leadership role has been less impressive of late than it was following World...
...focus today is on the responsibility of universities to build on our research and teachings—to embrace our obligations as a community of learning that lives the values implicit in its pursuit of knowledge for the betterment of the world,” Faust said...
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, is the question of whether using God, even symbolically, as a political tool within the courts is appropriate for a secular legal system. Though the case was summarily dismissed, the very fact that the complaint was heard at all involved an implicit state acknowledgement of the existence of God. Given cases like the 2005 Supreme Court decision banning a public display of the Ten Commandments in Kentucky (although a similar decision allowed a monument in Texas on historical grounds), we may call the introduction of the (specifically Christian) divine into American jurisprudence a clear...
...1990s, psychologist and social scientist Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University co-created what's known as the implicit-association test (IAT), a way of exploring the instant connections the brain draws between races and traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the IAT asks people to pair pictures of white or black faces with positive words like joy, love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable...
...their education. Moreover, uniforms will also help to mitigate the social pressures of fashion, which usually exaggerate the impulse to purchase expensive or trendy clothing. In many schools, the pressure to wear the “right” clothes and brands reinforces socioeconomic inequalities among students and permits implicit fashion requirements for friendship. On a more concrete level, requiring uniforms will prevent students wearing gang-related clothing and accessories—a serious problem in Hartford schools—from infecting the classroom learning environment. Freedom of expression may be an important part of our social fabric, but when...