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...Rehnquist explains his omission of more recent cases by stating that he chose not to discuss cases in which “any of [his] present colleagues have played a part.” A background in US history is helpful, especially since this section reads like a history textbook. Not only is the tone academic, but it can also be unexpectedly personal. Rehnquist occasionally adds interjections, when he shifts from third to first person. For example, while explaining how geographic qualifications of the justices related to appointments in the Supreme Court, Rehnquist uses himself as an example...
...latter chapters of the book finally provide what a straight history textbook wouldn’t: a “how-it-really-works” look at the Supreme Court. Rehnquist describes how cases are chosen, how they are argued,and how decisions are made. As in the first chapter, Rehnquist offers more details than the reader can possibly absorb. For example, conferences to discuss the cases take place on Wednesday afternoon and Friday conferences begin at 9:30 a.m. for most of the year. The chief justice and senior associate justice sit at opposite ends of a rectangular...
...country, students went to college at an age where our current young people are marking time in high school. And it was not only the elite who were so well-educated. Read the letters of a Revolutionary War soldier for yourself or take a history test from an 1865 textbook to determine the education level of the average person...
...those outside of Cambridge. By using OpenCourseWare, teachers can benefit from the expertise that has gone into crafting the MIT curriculum; education researchers can debate what topics should be included in standard courses; high-schoolers without access to quality instruction can download a syllabus and check out a textbook from a public library. Universities frequently spend millions in public-relations gestures to demonstrate the benefits they offer to the outside world; OpenCourseWare could be far more effective in promoting learning at far less cost...
...human brain may be a sophisticated thing, but there is an awful lot of ancient programming still etched into it. For "Martin," 21, a dental student in London, Ontario, his fear of snakes is so overwhelming that he stapled together pages in a textbook to avoid flipping to a photo of a snake. He often wakes with nightmares that he is sitting in a bar or a stadium and suddenly sees a snake slithering toward him. "It's odd," he says, "because I'm not in situations where I would ever see snakes...