Word: yale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Illustrating the need to connect with constituents, Edwards offered the example of David Boren, a Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar who attended the University of Oklahoma's law school before winning a seat on the United States Senate...
...today, even the leading Republican presidential contender, Texas Governor George W. Bush, a Yale College graduate, has assembled a team of Harvard-trained advisers...
...Bush went from Yale to oil exploration in Texas, and before Yale he attended Texas [elementary and secondary] schools," Will said, verifying the frontrunner's local credentials...
...performed on teens has doubled. As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard. Infertile couples advertise for an egg donor in the Yale Daily News, while entrepreneurs sold the sperm of Nobel laureates...
...also confirming a point legal scholars have long made: that eyewitnesses are often wrong. "There's a myth that the image is burned in a witness's mind and never forgotten," says Yale Law School lecturer Stephen Bright. "In fact, science says just the opposite." And eyewitness testimony is only as reliable as the eyewitness. Two men sentenced to death for a Chicago murder and then freed by DNA evidence in 1996 were convicted largely on the testimony of a woman with a sub-75 IQ, who later said prosecutors promised to release her from jail if she testified...