Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral responsibility as president of the University. He is a man noted for his interest in humanities, architecture and history," he said...
...Erecting a memorial at this time sends the wrong message--that those who fight for injustice and oppression are placed on the same moral ground as those who fought to eradicate injustice and oppression," she wrote...
...ACHIEVEMENT OF DEAD MAN Walking is quite a simple one: at its end you don't know where Tim Robbins, its writer-director, stands on the issue of capital punishment. Considering that there is no more tendentious topic available to a filmmaker, Robbins' restraint, his determination to explore the moral and psychological nuances of the relationship that develops between Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), a man condemned to death for his participation in a heinous crime, and Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), who becomes his spiritual counselor in his final months, is exemplary...
...come any gentler than hers. She is a woman of solid middle-class background. If anything, she has been more mysteriously called to a life caring for the marginal than Poncelet has been to his life of darkness. All we really know about her is that her moral courage is matched by her moral acuity. She opens herself up not just to the condemned man but also to the families of his victims, thereby squaring the movie's moral drama. Whatever she may think about the brutal finality of capital punishment, she cannot deny the anguish of these victims...
CHANCES ARE GOOD THAT CHINA HAS resorted to outright kidnapping of the legitimate Panchen Lama and made its own choice in order to control the independence drive of the Tibetan people. We must not forget that China has occupied Tibet. If the U.S. is to be the moral conscience of the world, it must address this issue with China. The Tibetan culture is unique, and it would be an incalculable loss to have it disappear forever. SABIR HASAN New York City Via E-mail