Word: mansfield
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After several Faculty members spoke in favor of the reforms, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 drew a link between the course evaluation process and grade inflation...
...Studies have shown, I say solemnly, that the young faculty, particularly, who are subjected to course evaluations, tend to raise the grades of their courses to avoid untoward comment,” Mansfield said...
...Courtesies aside, Mansfield's main goal was to extract from Lady Sarah the whereabouts of missing letters between Diana and Prince Philip, Diana's former father-in-law, which he believes could explain Diana's death - or, as he sees it, murder. Previously in the inquest, Diana's confidant Simone Simmons, a self-described natural healer and clairvoyant, testified that Diana had shown her the letters, in which she said Prince Philip described Diana as a "harlot and trollop." Lady Sarah has denied ever seeing them. However, a detective investigating Diana's former butler Paul Burrell on suspicion of theft...
...Michael Mansfield, the acid-tongued attorney representing Harrods tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed, apologized to the Lady in advance for reigniting "painful memories" and promised to be "careful" with his words. Then he attempted to dismantle the sisterly bond. Diana, he argued, withheld many of her plans from Lady Sarah - for instance, that she was assembling information to expose companies involved in the deployment of mines in areas like Angola, and that she supplied Andrew Morton with third-party recordings for his tell-all book Diana. "[Our relationship] was fine," Lady Sarah snapped. "I am not saying it was not fine...
Later, Burrell also told the court that the Queen had her own reservations. In a private meeting with the monarch a few weeks after Diana's death, Burrell said, the Queen admitted to him she thought Diana had been "overexcited" about the romance with Dodi. And when Mansfield asked if Burrell agreed that "the establishment" thought Diana's closeness to the Al-Fayed family was "an alliance made in hell," Burrell said he did. By the end of questioning, it seemed that the only people who didn't mind Diana and Dodi being a couple were Diana and Dodi...