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...planning somewhat less elaborate excursions this year and watching costs carefully. Says John Ueberroth, president of Minneapolis-based Carlson Travel Group: "Some cut a couple of days off the trip or look for special deals to save money." Catering to the bargain hunters, the New York City-based Inter- Continental hotel chain plans to slash rates by up to 60% next week at 30 of its hotels in 23 European cities and guarantee the prices in dollars. While they are in Europe, Americans seem to be paying closer attention than usual to such expenses as food, entertainment and gifts, which...
...Congressmen also found it hard to believe what they heard from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, the point man for the Administration's policy in Central America. The cocky, abrasive Abrams confessed to deliberately misleading congressional committees last fall when he claimed that the Administration had not solicited funds from foreign countries for the Nicaraguan contras. In fact, Abrams himself had requested a contribution of $10 million from the government of Brunei, but he testified last week that he was not "authorized" to tell Congress the truth on the matter. Abrams also told the panel...
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...
...perspectives. The ethics courses in the curriculum are supplemented through programs at Harvard's teaching hospitals, including ethics rounds, ethics committees in all of the hospitals and staff bioethicists at some of the facilities, says Lynn M. Peterson, assistant professor of medical ethics and a member of the inter-faculty ethics committee...