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...Historical Studies will now have an additional 12 History Department courses to choose from, after the Core Standing Committee (CSC) approved a total of 22 departmental courses as core alternates at a meeting yesterday afternoon. Four newly approved departmental courses will count towards Literature and Arts B, three for Moral Reasoning, two for Science A, and one for Social Analysis—all of which will likely apply retroactively, according to CSC student member Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, who attended yesterday’s meeting. The push to approve more departmental alternatives for Core requirements...
...participation of women in politics around the world. She challenged the audience by asking whether the United States would go into Iraq if the vice president and half of the Senate and House of Representatives were women. Thomas M. Scanlon, the final panelist and Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy, warned against self-censorship and fear to speak up. “The reason that someone can be offended is not a good defense of censorship... it is too easy to claim offense or to be genuinely be offended,” he said. Most...
...hype about moral values conservatives, George W. Bush got most of his votes from the upper income brackets. Since the exceptionally rich, by definition, make up a small portion of the population, Bush relied on the upper-middle class for the bulk of his votes. Nobody wrote a book about it, because everybody expected it. After the Bush tax cut, commentators agreed, the country club set would be nuts to vote for anybody else. There’s just one problem: Bush didn’t do what everybody thought...
John Mackey is such a libertarian. His social conscience leads him to encourage consumers to purchase environmentally sound products, but he does not wish to impose that choice upon them by force. In fact, libertarians can hold any personal moral view without believing that their stance should be forced upon others. Libertarians can support unions, or workers’ collectives, or a stringent set of religious beliefs, and they can hope that others think the same way, but they seek to persuade, never to coerce...
...based on these submissions. The practice is particularly rampant among offspring of “chosen ones”—politicians and employees of giant state-owned corporations, high-profile government officials, and figures at prestigious public sector institutions. Gradually, there has been a drastic decline in moral values in India to the point where no value is attached for originality or creativity. Naturally, every other movie produced in India is an unabashed rehash of a Hollywood chart buster. Complete sequences are lifted with no semblance of any acknowledgment to the original. The government routinely confers national honor...