Word: moralisms
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...Tommy Lee. The museum has hired a new director, Michael Brand, and in early 2006 after a $275 million renovation will reopen the Malibu villa that houses its antiquities. John Walsh, the museum's director from 1983 to 2000, says the Getty once had "a certain intellectual and moral position which was, ironically, brought about by its financial freedom." Things have changed. The museum still occupies its lofty perch in the hills. But, says Walsh: "the Getty is losing the high ground." --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...chumming it up with someone he is supposed to regulate--reinforced Italy's nearly mythic status as Europe's most rigged economy. The scandal created a major crisis for the government of businessman Silvio Berlusconi, itself no paragon of arm's-length transactions. Yet even Berlusconi finally found enough moral high ground to call on Fazio to resign his lifetime post after Finance Minister Domenico Siniscalco quit in protest when his calls for Fazio to step down had no effect. Siniscalco's replacement, Giulio Tremonti, who clashed with Fazio in an earlier stint as Finance Minister, tried to force...
...leave--we first see her being awakened by her crying baby--but gets little support from her career-focused co-workers. "You have got to stop making decisions with your hormones," her (female) boss warns her. But her mom status is also an asset to her department, giving her moral authority with juries to argue cases involving women and children. It also provides her intuition; when she visits the home of a family where the husband is actually imprisoning his wife and kids, she's the only one of her colleagues to notice a vital clue--that the kids have...
...soft” or “non-cognitive.” And Cioffi suggests an alternate path to ethical development through his defense of the humanities. Literary study, he says, “will help us to live better, more considerate, and crucially, more moral lives...
...authors also contribute to the ongoing debate over a “great books” curriculum, although on opposite sides. DiSalvo attacks Harvard’s Western-centrism, pointing out that the limited range of Moral Reasoning classes makes it appear that “the world has known 15 people capable of moral reasoning.” DiSalvo insists that Harvard’s courses must recognize the “varying, fascinating, and beautiful (and sometimes dangerous!)” systems of morality that occur beyond the Western world, especially in terms of religious beliefs...