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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...
...graduate school devoted to the teaching of drama, a director, actor or designer may come to rely on his previous knowledge in related fields, or on the amount of on-the-side research he will have time to conduct. But an undergraduate may coordinate his participation in a production with a course related to some idea in the work, in fields like government, philosophy, sociology, economics, history or psychology, in addition to studying the literary and artistic tradition from which the work emerged. A small number of courses at Harvard now examine a dramatist or a play in contexts other...
...accustomed to covering diplomatic affairs, but in recent weeks he played diplomat as well as painstakingly negotiating the final details of a meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Nelan was successful, and last Tuesday he and a team of TIME journalists joined Brezhnev in his Kremlin office to conduct the extraordinary discussion that is part of this week's cover story. Never before had the party chief held a private interview with members of an American news organization...
...cracked the secret. They suspected that spies were to blame. In April of 1951, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman looked down at the defendants. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb... has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea ... and who knows but that millions more of innocent' people may pay the price of your treason...
...goat. Though judges rate high in public opinion surveys - a poll commissioned by the American Bar Association last year found that 77% believed that judges are "generally honest and fair"- politicians and public alike have begun agitating to make them more accountable for both their judgments and their conduct. But accountability should not come at the cost of compromising judicial independence...