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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irony reigns supreme! Teng Hsiaop'ing chosen Man of the Year [Jan. 1] for leading 1 billion Chinese toward modernization while simultaneously the Shah of Iran has been run out of his country for modernizing it too fast. May Teng heed the Shah's experience so that he may not be condemned to repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1979 | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

DEREK BOK HAS CHOSEN to emphasize professional ethics, the academic study of how moral principles can be applied to situations that arise in professional life. Professional ethics are, almost by definition, situational: they teach one how to react to moral dilemmas, how best to conduct oneself in a given set of circumstances. They rarely, however, strike at basic, absolute moral principles of right and wrong--they lay out the accepted lines of conduct, but rarely examine the difference between what is accepted and what is right. They set the standards of a profession, but they cannot set the guidelines...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

Cuban scholars are very competent in their chosen fields of history and some types of practical economics, but "there are huge chunks of social science they simply don't do," Dominguez said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dominguez Recommended for Tenure | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...Egypt's Arab neighbors: The situation is serious. On my western border, I have [Libyan Strongman Muammar] Gaddafi and the Soviets. In Algeria, whoever is chosen President, I think there will be ten years of instability. [As for Syrian President Hafez Assad], I wonder what would happen to him if he applied what I am applying here: shutting down the concentration camps, bringing in a permanent constitution, a parliamentary system, a multiparty system. The Syrian leaders would not survive one hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A President and a King At Odds | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...committee, composed of the eight class marshals and one representative from each of the Houses, has reduced the field--chosen in a poll of all seniors--down to a list of 19, headed by "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry B. Trudeau...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Leave 'Em Laughin' | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

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