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...title story, the most masterly of the group, a teacher of ancient history at an exclusive boarding school finds himself drawn into a battle of wits with a student liar and cheat. Later the student rises to the pinnacle of public life. Meanwhile, the teacher sinks into obscurity, still hungry for recognition of his former importance to the "boys" but unable...
...relationship with her mother. But in her new work, Chernin delves into the past not only to achieve a new understanding of herself through the narrative .She acts as both a critical story-teller and a passive character. Writing 20 years later she says," "Memory is a liar, a cheat, a thief, a pirate," which distorts and creates significance out of the past. Indeed, this original approach challenges the way memory, especially memory of oneself, continuously evolves...
...intriguing world of espionage is fraught with a similar moral problematic. A successful spy is necessarily unscrupulous: he must lie and cheat, seduce and steal--in short, flout every moral convention known to man--if he is to be of service to his country. Yet, at the same time, society reserves some of its sharpest moral condemnation for the spy who turns against his country. The lexicon of spying is at once pathologically amoral and sanctimoniously ethical...
With an honor code, an intelligent student would be able to cheat, knowing that he will never be detected. Seventy percent of Harvard students were valedictorians in high school, but far fewer are Group I now. It would seem very tempting for students to reclaim the academic success that once came so naturally by bending the rules just a little...
...honor code could work anywhere, it would be at the nation's military academies. There academic and moral training extends 24 hours a day. The honor code of the Naval Academy is simple: "a midshipman does not lie, cheat, or steal...