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...latest turn in Kraft's effort to forge the world's biggest confectionary business, the low-ball offer - worth $12 per Cadbury share, or 4% less than its earlier proposal thanks to an interim fall in Kraft's shares - was never likely to be welcomed. As a multiple of Cadbury's profit before deductions for tax and other charges, the deal is worth roughly a third less than the average for takeovers in the global food business since 2000, according to investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Granted, the world is in an economic slump and there's no rival...
More specifically, health-care advocates need to abandon ethics that prioritize the self over the common good in order for their efforts to bear fruit. Such privileging of autonomy extends from a series of judgments latent in contemporary common wisdom about morality—first, that each person should be free to pursue his desires so long as he does not harm anyone else; second, that such desires cannot be judged inferior to those of someone else. Taken together, these two judgments mean that health-care reform is incompatible with our national moral ethos. Public option or not, finding some...
...appears purposefully structured, above all, to not offend and to avoid dogmatic statements that seem improvable. Even disapprobation toward a selfish man seems out of place. His hoarding might not be laudable, but each of us is hesitant to claim definite knowledge of his moral worth. In a widespread effort such as national medical reform, compassion requires conscience in order to work. On a solely pragmatic level, without appeal to a sense of duty, the mind of the dissident will remain unchanged...
...police issued nearly 70 citations for trespassing to the crowd, which had gathered to camp out in front of the Massachusetts State Legislature as part of The Leadership Campaign, a month-long effort encouraging sleeping in public places to draw attention to climate change. The Campaign is currently calling on Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 to introduce a bill to power Massachusetts with 100 percent renewable energy...
...release last week of the detained KPK members reflects a small step forward in the country's effort to fight widespread graft in Indonesia, but also the long struggle ahead. The police freed Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, both currently nonactive members of the KPK, after more wiretapped recordings were aired on national TV that implicated members of the police and prosecutors in an alleged attempt to frame the men. "So far it is the credibility and image of the police and the attorney general's office that have taken the biggest hit," says Danang Widojoko, coordinator...