Word: interes
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Which is where Thompson steps in. As director of the program which arose from the Rupp Committee's referendum, he coordinates the activities of an inter-faculty committee and a group of senior fellows from the various faculties who are responsible for orchestrating the program. Next fall, a group of four outside scholars will be the first ethics fellows sponsored by the program...
While the Kennedy School has recently started offering courses on the inter-relationship between value systems and professional responsibility, their efforts are not broad-based. Part of the problem is that standards vary from field to field; both the Law School and the Medical School have well-established ethical training components, whereas ethics have not traditionally been emphasized at faculties like the Business School...
...shredded documents included copies of North's telephone logs and computerized inter-office memos that National Security Council officials used to communicate with one another...
After almost 20 years as a Harvard department, Afro-American Studies still draws second glances in many non-academic circles. Many of its approximately 20 concentrators are joint concentrators, and all five of its professors hold joint appointments. An inter-disciplinary department, Afro-American Studies has undergone many changes, including a dwindling number of professors and growing number of concentrators. Its courses are cross-listed under the specific concentrations to which they are related. And people still question whether it is legitimate...
Some of the toughest grilling may be inflicted on Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, who had insisted publicly that "nobody in this building had any idea of any contributions coming from a foreign government" just days before it was disclosed he had solicited $10 million for the contras from the Sultan of Brunei. Worse yet, the money deposited into a Swiss account provided by North has disappeared. Says an Administration official: "Aside from the question of whether he did anything indictable, he will at the very least be sacrificed. Elliott knew most of the essential...