Word: ethics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem, though, is that Clinton's vision of national service is self-contradictory. One the one hand, the president asserted in his campaign that the U.S. should "guarantee every American who wants a college education the means to obtain one." But he also insists on instilling an ethic of service, and selflessness, in young Americans...
...Singapore be cloned? Not without a Lee Kuan Yew, say many citizens. Moreover, their city-state possesses special advantages: small size that makes control easy and infrastructure cheap, no job-seeking rural poor to overwhelm the city with slums, an ambitious immigrant population, a Confucian ethic stressing education and respect for authority, location on a major trade route in the heart of a dynamic region. The country's perpetual siege mentality -- it feels threatened by bigger neighbors and fears its own ethnic mix is volatile -- also encourages economic and political sacrifice...
Especially at Harvard, where students are saturated with the ethic of success, it is easy to forget the growing diversity of the Asian-American community. This community--like America as whole--is increasingly becoming one of recent immigrants, be they refugees from Vietnam or poor store owners from Korea. These Asian-American groups whom we keep at arms length bear the brunt of prejudice that all Asian-Americans face in some...
Even with all the penalties (it was BC, after all), the Crimson showed that work ethic brings results. And success usually lifts the spirit...
...relocation of the action adds nothing to the play. Renaissance Italy and the nineteenth-century South share frivolous aristocrats and a conservative marriage ethic, but this is not enough to justify the change of scene. Perhaps there is an obscure reference to the Southern psyche--but to the uninitiated the production seems to revolve around the one minor actor, Joshua Bloom, who speaks with a Southern accent. A riverboat does not lend itself to the action: the gulling scenes are harder to stage, and the space confuses the audience. What is outside and what is inside? Shilling's adaptation causes...