Word: moralisms
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...complete the parable, by making these professors their role models. It is often said that Harvard as an institution fails to educate a student’s soul. (Indeed, it scarcely attempts: the general education committee of the curricular review this year recommended the discontinuation of a requirement in moral reasoning.) In an environment where preprofessionalism is rampant and success is measured by your GPA—or, failing that, by a job offer at a consulting or i-banking firm—individual character is rarely mentioned. Watching faculty stand up for themselves at their meetings this year provided...
Even among those who felt that the moral implications of the University’s financial decisions should be considered, opinions varied on whether it was tatus and to vote on companies’ internal policies or whether it was better to make a statement and divest...
...want a student who has a strong moral base,” Hobbs said...
...implicit comparison would drive many Americans to distraction. Guant?namo isn't in the same league as Kim Jong Il's gulag. But it's bad enough, and as Mahbubani points out, it has weakened the moral authority that the U.S. had at the end of the cold war. Alas, his brief chapter on what the U.S. can do about this flirts with the banal ("promote greater respect for international law"). Which means the ultimate message of the book is clear if, for Americans, depressing: in places like Guant?namo, the U.S. frittered away much of the world's trust...
Virtually a one-man subgenre of reportorial comic-making, the author of Safe Area Gorazde continues to delve into his experience in postwar Bosnia for its rich characters and complex moral issues. War's End contains two short pieces, in the first of which Sacco and a couple of local reporters track down the notorious Serb separatist and accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic as he attends a Christmas service. The second story, Soba, is a profile of an intense, charismatic native Sarajevan, an artist turned planter of land mines as he waits out the final days of the war. Sacco...