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When the phone rings for Michael Josephson, it usually means that something has gone wrong. Spectacular disgraces like the savings and loan mess and the police-brutality scandal in Los Angeles have aroused public concern about corruption, and corruption -- and how to avoid it -- is one of Josephson's chief concerns. A former law professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he specializes in teaching ethics courses to government officials, businessmen and just plain citizens. Whether the problem is statehouse wrongdoing or corporate misconduct, his telephone rings often these days with the same request: Can you help...
Navy ROTC's Acting Executive Officer, Lt.Walter S. Josephson, said Navy's return to Harvardwould provide greater convenience for Harvardstudents, but would weaken the numerical strengthof the Navy ROTC unit...
...Josephson added that ROTC officers areinterested in the council resolution because "itwas passed by a pretty significant margin...
Many scholars believe that sleaze comes in cycles and that this decade's ethical looseness was partly inspired by the deregulatory, anything-goes mood of the Reagan era. "People convince themselves that a new norm of acceptability applies because of the general atmosphere of corruption," says Michael Josephson, founder of the Josephson Institute for the Advancement of Ethics in Los Angeles. The emphasis on money as an absolute barometer of success was equally corrupting. Says Donald Shriver, head of the Union Theological Seminary: "The Protestant work heritage is being stood on its head because making money has become a good...
...most common argument against pardoning the Iranscam defendants is that their actions are too serious to forgive without repentance. "A pardon would say that the democratic process is only a valid one sometimes, and that highly committed patriots can set it aside -- like Dr. Strangelove," notes Ethicist Josephson. He adds, "It would send a message that there are times when we will permit high-level Government officials to lie to Congress. How could we trust anything afterward...