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...grew more acute, he started thinking about which individuals in Nepalese society--or most societies, for that matter--have the most influence in the family but are the least utilized. That's when he came up with the grandmothers. They have the time to distribute the pills and the moral authority to see that the children jolly well take them. And it didn't matter if some of the women were too frail to make the rounds; the program actually worked better when villagers came to them to get the pills. "Even within a limited physical environment," says Shrestha...
When it comes to combatting AIDS, doctors and clergy don't always see eye to eye. Physicians zero in on the virus that causes the scourge. Ministers tend to highlight the moral lapses--from social injustice to sexual behavior--that help spread the disease. They could be allies in combatting the epidemic, particularly in Africa where doctors are few and preachers many, but instead they often seem to work at cross-purposes, divided by mistrust and skeptical of one another's motives...
Give this a try next time you’re in the dining hall: rather than rushing back to your room to write that Moral Reasoning paper, stop in front of the frozen yogurt machine, and make a note of the two flavors offered. Now, take a moment, and try to figure out exactly what kind of flavor arises from the resulting swirl...
Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel discussed his new book “Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics” in front of a small gathering of students, faculty, and other community members at the Harvard Book Store last Friday. The talk, which was part of the Friday Forum series organized by Harvard Book Store, took the form of a dialogue between Sandel, who teaches the popular undergraduate course Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” and Homi K. Bhabha, Rothenberg professor of English and American literature and language. Bhabha asked Sandel questions about...
...with two wage earners working full time. This ignores the fact that many Harvard employees can’t work 40 hours per week. Harvard won’t let them. But even ignoring the exact statistics, it’s worth pointing out that this assumption suggests a moral framework that I would imagine many Harvard students are not entirely comfortable with...