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...also avoided injury. The vehicle, a gray Mazda 3 with Massachusetts license plates, plowed through a white picket fence and clipped the corner of the building, coming to a stop partially wedged in the wall and nestled in the adjacent shrubbery. According to the owner of the car, Richard Palmer of Framingham, Mass., “the [valet] said the car kept accelerating.” Other than a heap of wooden fence debris and a dislodged window screen, the damage was concentrated around the 10-foot tall gash where the car penetrated the building. “At first...
...Courage is as contagious as fear. When we meet someone who has been very courageous on behalf of others, something in us wants to learn from that and become similarly courageous,” Palmer said...
...Palmer said he and his fellow editors initially came up with the idea of making a film based on the course, but were approached by a publisher who suggested compiling a book instead...
...Palmer, who left Harvard in 2004, now lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a professor at the University of Uppsala where he teaches courses similar to those that he taught at Harvard. He is also in charge of designing a Core curriculum for the university that will take inspiration from Harvard’s Core curriculum but place more emphasis on social ethics and citizen engagement...
...Brian Palmer taught Religion 1529, "Personal Choice and Global Transformation," twice: in the fall semester of 2001 and again in the spring semester of 2004. The Feb. 5 news article "Ex-Religion Course Spawns Book" incorrectly said that Palmer taught the course only once...