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...Harvard has so many resources. There really is no other limit to research here other than time,” Auguste says. She hopes to continue working on these projects for a modest 30 to 40 years...
...Fryer’s work ethic has impressed his colleagues, and he remains unfailingly modest about the wide scope of his research, saying he only wants to do this job well...
...members of each new class that the smartest kid from high school is now just another kid in the entryway. Yet even as students develop a degree of modesty and homogenize into one of the 1,000 people in Ec 10, the entitlement continues to bleed into their more modest existence. The lingering need to be on top results in the unintentionally hilarious accumulation of officer positions, academic prizes, and memberships in some of our 300-plus student groups...
...with something less grandiose than self-banishment.” In so doing he is overwhelmed by the smallness of that which he’s agreeing to, and he realizes how hard it will be “to live with one’s failure in a modest fashion.” How truly shabby it will be to lead life as a man who is “if unyielding, unyielding quietly.” A man who leaves his headphones at four, possibly? I guess maybe that is growing up? Which is to say: We wanted...
...beginning, Scheck and Neufeld had modest goals. But with a staff of six, the team wasn't prepared for the onslaught of interest from convicts. "We never realized we would be getting thousands of requests each year," Neufeld says. As the full-time staff grew - today the team has 38 people, including attorneys, an intake department and a policy department - so did the exoneration rate. Between 1992 and 2002, the project oversaw 100 exonerations; since 2002, it's taken half that time to exonerate 100 more. "Ultimately, the criteria are very simple," Neufeld says of the cases the project chooses...