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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would be quite safe in that field (which might be home to three billion tiny worlds). For Horton to bring the Whos back to the jungle will surely put them in renewed danger. But Horton must be not just the hero of the story but the teacher of its moral. Both are large and satisfying indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horton Hears a Who!: Rated G for Glorious | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...group of self-rising French chefs has petitioned the Vatican that being a gourmand is no sin. Envy is the engine of tabloid culture. Lust is an advertising strategy; anger, the righteous province of the aggrieved. Most days I'd give anything for some sloth. It was the moral philosopher Mae West who observed that "to err is human, but it feels divine." (She also advised, "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I never tried before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Road to Hell | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...aura of limpid, virtuous purity. But beneath that cloak, things get a little murky because in presenting the facts as he does, Baker is making an argument that he doesn't explicitly state. Does he really believe--as he seems to--that aerial bombing is on a moral continuum with Nazi genocide? And that Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews is comparable to Churchill's hatred of the Germans and Japanese? (We get Mrs. Churchill calling them "Nazi hogs" and "yellow Japanese lice" in a letter?) Or that the world would be a better place if--delirious fantasy--Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whirled Peace | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...healthcare have a moral responsibility to set healthful behavior,” said Jackler, whose school declared a tobacco-free zone on its entire campus last September. “Hospitals and medical schools have a unique and special role in promoting healthful behavior...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Medical School Expands Smoking Ban | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Senator David Vitter of Louisiana both stayed in office despite their prostitution scandals. Spitzer could not because, in the end, "he's got no friends," says Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who worked on two of Spitzer's campaigns. "If you're seen as being the source of all moral behavior and then you turn out not to be that way, people are happy about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Spitzer Destined to Fall? | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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