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...that participation in community service programs will allow students to develop values emphasizing self-sacrifice and helping those less fortunate instead of the self-centered morality that prevails today. A latter day program of good works, if you will. But how do you ensure that a majority, not to mention all of Harvard's undergraduates, will enroll in community service programs? Many won't have the time and many won't have the interest. And if ethical instruction is as important as both Bennett and Bok bill it, how can the University allow a single undergraduate to miss...
...educators must devise a means of teaching ethical thinking and fostering the development of moral values for all without erring too far on the side of Bennett's moral imperialism. This is a dilemma that has beset many a thousand in Professor Michael Sandel's course, "Justice," not to mention our nation's educators. For starters, the University should add another subdivision to the Core that examines the values, traditions, and development of Western civilization and thought. This would provide knowledge of a moral structure that has underpinned the society in which we have lived for several millenia...
...each by Peter and Paul. (The "resurrection" of Jesus is distinguished from the "raising" of persons who eventually died again.) Nonetheless, Pentecostal Scholar Russell Spittler of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., protests that "miracles are better left to speak for themselves -- Oral is the last person who should mention...
...Soviet Academy of Sciences of spreading "cock-and-bull stories" about his supposedly "tranquil life" in Gorky. On the contrary, he said, he suffered psychological torture and frequent harassment while in exile. Despite the current policy of glasnost (openness), a newspaper account of the ceremony did not mention Sakharov's remarks...
...public remarks after the meeting, the Pope made no mention of the war-crimes allegations, referring only to Waldheim's devotion "to ensuring peace " while at the U.N. Later, Waldheim revealed that they had discussed the charges "in a marginal way." Israel condemned the visit, noting that it hurt already fragile ties between Jews and the Vatican. In the U.S., Jewish groups threatened to boycott a meeting with the Pope in Florida next September. Nonetheless, Waldheim could barely contain his satisfaction. Said he: "The fact alone that the Pope did receive me in such a cordial way speaks for itself...