Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposal is this: that actors, staff, and crew--male or female, queer or straight--currently involved in this year's Pudding production, have a moral and ethical obligation to walk out of production until an agreement to admit actresses to next year's production is reached. To say that acting by females will lessen the quality of HPT 152 is an insult to the talent of our actresses as well as to the inventiveness and creativity of the Pudding production staff...
...dignity. Predictably, diplomats were falling all over themselves at the United Nations to sing the praises of the document, as delegates from no fewer than 115 countries lined up to speak before the General Assembly. U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan set the tone when he called the declaration "the moral core of all our efforts...
Whatever the factual and moral parallels between the two cases, the two men's fates could be quite different. If so, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, a crucial distinction will account for the difference: "The general is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Commander in Chief is not." In our constitutional system, says Thompson, "we have a different way to deal with the President, as we probably should." TIME Washington columnist Margaret Carlson agrees. "There is only one President but thousands of soldiers," she says. One is not as easily dispensable as the other. "Moreover...
...asserted that an early belief in Santa Claus breeds distrust between children andparents and may warp children's moral andreligious development...
...figure out what we are or should be doing here. Flirting with ideas for four years in a liberal arts institution is not even justifiable to most citizens of the First World (in fact, it is a peculiarly American luxury), so to a Laotian or Burundian peasant the moral difference between working 80 hours per week at Goldman, Sachs and studying at Harvard or paying to participate in World Teach is negligible (or more likely still, completely irrelevant). As for the worth of business people, investment bankers and consultants may add to GDP and still end up rich corporate drones...