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...should stand in solidarity with workers in these difficult and uncertain times. We must express to the Harvard administration that we are willing to make sacrifices so our friends can keep their jobs. Harvard’s educational mission should not only be an intellectual one, but also a moral one, that teaches us to put people over profits and value all members of our campus, whether they are using the classrooms or cleaning them. The strength of Harvard comes not from the rate of its endowment growth, but in the community of people that comprise it. The road ahead...
Father Dan Madigan, another Jesuit expert on Islam, doesn't deny that it's easier to justify a choice for violence with the Koran than with the Christian Gospel. But Madigan says attempts by Catholics to "claim the moral high ground" fall flat. "The idea that [Christians] can dismiss Muslims as inherently more violent doesn't stand up to historical scrutiny, whatever the justifications we might have given for our wars and our massacres." Even more to the point, says Madigan, a Georgetown University professor of theology with a Ph.D. in Islamic religion, it is counterproductive for Christian leaders...
...student at the discussion last week noted the lack of decency in Harvard men today, concluding, “Being a good man is not a high priority.” Indeed, that’s because moral education is not a priority for the College. The old Harvard had its prejudices against women and minorities, but it tried to teach its graduates as best it knew how. Now, University Hall seems determined to train the next generation of professional women, yet it seems to have forgotten its men, explaining to them the boundaries but never the game plan...
...Given these depressing circumstances, why should the United States consider it a moral imperative to include collaborative counterterrorism and human-rights concerns as major tenets of its foreign policy? Or, to paraphrase the cynics, is the United States about to climb back up on its moral high horse? I sure hope so. Even if we’re judging by solely our own standards, after eight years of secrecy and lies, some integrity would nice. Let’s start by approaching the aftermath of Guantánamo in the right...
...Ignoring those contradictions might be acceptable in furtherance of the simple moral goal of helping thousands of people in need - or more cynically, in pursuit of the p.r. win that might come from being seen to do so. But much of the money pledged at Sharm el-Sheikh may never go to helping Palestinians in Gaza. At a conference in Paris in late 2007, the international community started a pledge drive that eventually totaled $7.7 billion in proposed aid to the Palestinians. By September 2008, only $1.4 billion had gone to the Palestinian Authority, according to French diplomat Pierre Duquesne...