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...reliable rule that if you put in enough time, you will find something. Paul wrote to the Hebrews that belief was “the evidence of things not seen,” and as a researcher in the bowels of Widener, I have quested after as-of-yet-unseen evidence. Call it persistence, hard-headedness, or belief—but some such quality is vital to the early stages of finding material for the thesis...
...Wishful thinking gets the process going, but by the end it has no place. No 21st century reader needs reminding that zealous belief in unseen or partial evidence can have disastrous results. A thesis may begin with Paul’s version of belief, but it is developed only with a commitment to a process akin to the scientific method. You try out a hypothesis, have the guts to follow it through, and then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten...
...finishing, I found that I could contradict my thesis about as well as I could defend it, and I still had a list of questions and leads that I wanted to follow. I felt not just relief but wonder that I had finished what began with a bit of unseen evidence, and sadness that the process was over. What began with belief ended with knowledge, experience, and disbelief...
...broken system by reaffirming the democratic principles that define this country at its best. In this effort to return government to its constituents, the campaign is as much a movement as a political exercise. It has drawn thousands of young people to the political process in a way unseen since Robert F. Kennedy ’48. It has focused on small donations—already having garnered over 100,000 contributors, 90 percent of whom gave under $100. It has challenged people to engage and volunteer actively, not just to sit back or write a check...
...troops engaged in even worse behavior. "We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience," Senator Lindsey Graham said. "We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges." A senior Pentagon official tells TIME that the Pentagon is considering the possibility of showing the unseen material to members of Congress...