Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University should not agree to use the names of donors when it knows that "their lives and conduct are in plain conflict with the values and ideals of the institution," said Bok. However, these judgments must be made with great discretion, and it is generally imprudent to remove someone's name after memorializing...
...great traits is to set all the parts and people in working harmony," adds Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor Emeritus and a friend of Bok's. "This University is made of a great number of different parts, and it is inescapable that these interests are going to conflict with one another. One of the great tasks that Derek does so well is to keep these interests working together, in harmony, in a progressive state...
...gratuitous dig at the Deavers merits similar dismissal. Mrs. Deaver has not been accused by anyone of using her influence with her husband to further her own interests or that of her PR firms' clients. Nevertheless, even though no conflict of interest exists, Mrs. Deaver is somehow "wrong" to accept good pay for her public relations work. Moreover, the meaningless charge that she is "unqualified" for PR (should she have gone to PR school?) is similar to charges brought against Meese--that he is unworthy of the Attorney Generalship, not prepared for or knowledgeable enough about the job. Again, such...
Certainly one of the greatest strengths of our national press is its ability to hold officials rightly accountable for their actions when laws have been broken or interests conflict. But single-minded, baseless smearing and ridiculing of public figures crodes the credibility and effectiveness of the very institution we trust to ferret out true wrong-doing...
...should do a cost-benefit analysis each time individual liberty is in conflict with some other good we prize. Freedom of association is a good. Equal opportunity is a good. To impose membership rules on the Final clubs is to sacrifice the former. Not to impose them is to sacrifice the latter. Stevens and Harvard College, in the absence of any showing that denial of equal opportunity does harm in this case, have determined that freedom of association must be sacrificed. The fact that many who share their belief in equal opportunity also value free association highly, makes their action...