Word: moralisms
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...government decided to reduce funding or deny coverage for certain medical technologies or procedures, patients would have to forgo their use or pay for them out of pocket. Under the current system, if people are dissatisfied with their plan, they can simply switch insurance carriers. No one denies the moral imperative for reform to provide health-care access to all Americans, but a single-payer system is not the answer. Janet Trautwein, CEO, National Association of Health Underwriters, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA...
Nine hundred bright-eyed Harvard Business School (HBS) graduates of the Class of 2007 blanketed the lawn in front of Baker Library yesterday as American Express Company Chairman and CEO Kenneth I. Chenault took the stage, exhorting them to maintain a moral compass as they work to become leaders in the business world. A Harvard Law School graduate, Chenault—well known for the leadership he exhibited in 2001 when the American Express tower was damaged by debris from the collapsing World Trade Center—was selected by the four members of the Student Class Day Committee...
...supervise a team of administrators and deans who will share in her vision. And she must protect academic freedom in the face of political hurricanes while continuing to push for excellence in all fields, in both teaching and research. Externally, she has a responsibility use her bully pulpit and moral authority—both as president of Harvard and as one of the most prominent women in America—to the fullest extent.At the same time, Faust must use a light touch. If Summers’ resignation showed anything, it is that a University cannot be governed by fiat...
...drugs is about controlling people, not crime. Drugs have largely been defined by their links to vice and bacchanalia—from Homer’s lotus eaters (rescued from Lethe and lethargy) to modern pill-popping clubbers—which sets off a hand-wringing moral panic rather than rational thought. Perhaps the social externalities of drug use exceed the costs of prohibition, but the war on drugs usually isn’t justified by such cost-benefit analysis...
...myopia has given rise to a pernicious moral equivalency—exhibited most recently in S. Allen Counter’s comparison of the tactics of the South African apartheid regime to the Harvard University Police Department’s. A meaningfully “international” community would recoil instinctively from such a plainly ignorant distortion—one that imputes the reputation of a murderous regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent...