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...more courses on ethics and more attention paid to developing standards of honesty, decency, and respect for others on our campuses. That is all to the good. But as we labor at these reforms, we should keep one thing in mind. No set of courses, however brilliantly taught, no code of conduct, however wisely conceived, will ever succeed in strengthening the character of our students unless they are buttressed by the force of personal example. If you would know virtue, Plato tells us, observe the virtuous man. For more than a quarter of a century, Ted Hesburgh has given...
Recognizing the special requirements of discipline in the ranks, the Constitution authorizes separate legal regulation of the military forces. Each branch of the service had its own system until 1950, when the Uniform Code of Military Justice was adopted in response to complaints about disparities among the services. Since then, architects of military law have been moving it closer to civilian standards of trial procedure and evidence. Even before the U.S. Supreme Court's Miranda decision, military defendants were required to be informed of their rights before questioning, and the military contends that Lonetree and Bracy were properly informed...
...made arms to Iran that had run into snags in Portugal. That led to some quasi-diplomatic assignments, meeting with Iranian Middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar to hear his proposals for the exchange of U.S. weapons for American hostages (or "boxes," as Ghorbanifar termed them in a particularly repulsive code word) held in Lebanon. In early 1986 Secord was designated, in his words, as "the commercial cutout" to arrange the secret delivery of more weapons from U.S. stockpiles to Iran...
Perhaps the worst threat facing PTL is the loss of federal tax exemption. The tax code says that "no part" of an exempt group's earnings should benefit an individual. The IRS allows employees reasonable salaries but regularly yanks the exemptions of charities that give excessive pay and perks...
...patent controversy is just the latest in a series of ethical battles over biotechnology, the science that enables man to manipulate the genetic code. The best-known and most controversial technique used by biotechnology is gene-splicing, the insertion of foreign genes into plants, animals or microbes. Scientists have, for example, introduced rat-growth- hormone genes into the DNA of mice, resulting in larger mice, and firefly genes into tobacco plants, which then glow in the dark. Genetic engineering cannot, however, "cross" a cow with a frog to produce a new species. "The essence of a particular animal is something...