Word: review
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...Vendler, who also sits on the core review committee, says large lecture courses may be the only way for undergraduates to encounter some of Harvard's most famous faculty members...
This communal catastrophe is beginning to breed unconventional and disquieting responses. A forthcoming article in the Yale Law Review by Paul Butler, a law professor at George Washington University, reports that inner-city juries are increasingly acquitting black men they know to be guilty. "They do a cost/benefit analysis," he says. "They look at this person and decide, 'As a community, we're better off with this person out of jail than in jail.'" The practice is probably legal under a common-law doctrine allowing jurors to override the law if their own sense of justice demands...
...classroom. "We had the same math book, back to page one, for two years in a row," adds Pena, a plaintiff in the suit. The state will fight the suit on the grounds that many children need more than three years of bilingual classes, but it will now review cases more carefully...
...official start of its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to add two politically sensitive appeals to a docket that already includes cases on gay rights and racial gerrymandering. The Justices said they would review a Bush Administration decision not to re-adjust the 1990 Census to compensate for an apparent undercount of minorities in large cities; the Justices also announced they would review the sentences imposed upon Los Angeles police officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell in the Rodney King case. The court's most intriguing question: When will Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 71, who underwent back surgery...
David S. Friedman '93, president of the Harvard Law Review, said the verdict reflects the country's attitudes...