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In the years of its rise, the move­ment lit­tle by lit­tle brought the community’s atti­tude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resent­ment, from trust to fear and sus­pi­cion. […] By 1933 at least five of my ten [Nazi] friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intel­lec­tu­als” as unre­li­able, and among these unre­li­ables, upon aca­d­e­mics as the most insid­i­ously sit­u­ated. They Thought They Were Free

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It was only three words in his 20-minute speech announc­ing his can­di­dacy — “taught con­sti­tu­tional law.” But his stu­dents and col­leagues at the University of Chicago say those words would make Barack Obama a dif­fer­ent kind of president.

“It cer­tainly is an advan­tage that he really knows the Constitution of the United States,” said Professor Cass Sunstein. “I don’t know if we have had a pres­i­dent that knows as much about the found­ing doc­u­ment as he does.” Professor Obama was a lis­tener, stu­dents say, Sun-Times 2007-02-17