Word: moralizations
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...signatory to that petition, I think none of us expected Harvard to divest from companies doing business in Israel. The petition represented the loosest kind of divestment demand: a blanket statement of general responsibility and a request to take a strong but vague moral stance. Historically, Harvard does not meet demands of this sort...
...unequivocal ban on investments that facilitate governments responsible for committing or supporting Congress-declared genocides There is no excuse for Sinopec, which is involved in Sudan in the same way as PetroChina, to remain in Harvard’s portfolio—since the University has taken a moral stance against genocide in Sudan, it behooves them to be consistent. Other schools that divested from PetroChina, like Yale, Stanford, and Amherst, recognized the similarities and also divested from Sinopec...
...This is not a question of freedom of speech,” Yasin said. “There’s a difference between legal rights and what is moral...
...path to directing an opera with as high a level of intellectual and moral gravitas as Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” does not usually start amidst a musical complete with animal suits, an ugly duckling, and an exclamatory one-syllable title. Yet “Dialogues” music director Ben E. Green ’06 steadfastly resists categorization. Not only did Green, a classically trained pianist, begin his directing career supervising a high school production of “Honk!” he has also been involved with...
...grow up without a strong moral compass and you are corrupted at an early age, it takes something for you to get back on track,” she says. “The inability to engage in self-denial is one of the things that keep people from getting back on track...