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...more and more companies have begun to pay less attention to the once highly regarded forecasts. Someone else recalled a comment by Reagan's Budget Director David Stockman that no one in the Administration really understands what is going on in the economy. Concluded Urban Affairs Specialist Thomas Fletcher: "People aren't as intelligent as the systems they're managing." There were no final solutions or quick answers at the end of the meeting, but a month from now the same group will again come together and try to find patterns and trends in an ever more...
Speaking before an audience of 35 at a Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club forum, Dr. Joseph Fletcher, professor of Medicine and author of the book "Situation Ethics: The New Morality," said the abortion issue is an ethical determination of when "personhood" begins. "Everyone agrees that life begins at conception--but the issue is when should we assign the rights and status of a person to the fetus," he said...
...Fletcher added that because the assignment of personal rights can not be empirically decided, and must be based on personal beliefs, the abortion issue cannot be regulated by the government. "The two opinions must co-exist: the belief of one group cannot be imposed on the other," he said...
Charging that capital punishment does not deter criminals and that the "eye-for-an-eye" theory of justice is outdated, Hugo A. Bedau, Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, said last night that "there are no crimes that are suitably punished with the death penalty...
Mary E. Blessington, an Independent candidate and the former master of the Fletcher School resents the notion that more senior teachers are neccesarily less qualified...