Word: moralizer
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CREDIBILITY. If there is anything that higher education cannot afford to lose, it is credibility. Institutions of higher learning have no PACs and no large constituency; they operate on moral force and credibility alone. It would indeed be a frightening word for Harvard and her fellow universities if more and more of the public started to accept Secretary of Education William Bennett's "Our Greedy Colleges" argument...
That is where his untouchable (read incorruptible) "posse" comes in. Moral fiber might be enough to carry the day against frontier bandits. But in urbanized America, where crime is mechanized, industrialized and partially subsidized by government, it needs a modest organization to back its play: the nerveless trigger finger of George Stone (Andy Garcia), like Capone, Italian; the accounting genius of wimpy-looking, stouthearted Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith); and above all, the mentoring heart and long memory of the Irish cop, Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery). He is a weary, steady man, very clearly seen by an actor whose every...
...Oliver North's secret contra-supply network qualified as a front-page headline. Now the Administration is stipulating that it did indeed support the contra cause but that this was well within the bounds of the shifting congressional restrictions that existed between 1983 and 1986. Thus the very real moral and political questions about a secret policy that was clearly designed to thwart the Boland amendment has temporarily given way to a trickier legal dispute: Exactly what did that amendment and other laws forbid, and to whom did they apply...
Legally, that failure is probably not punishable. But the moral point remains. The Boland amendment may be foolish or even disastrous policy. Nonetheless, for all the ambiguities of its changing versions, it is the law, and the Constitution gives the President no latitude to choose which laws he will honor...
...sure, the Nigerian Civil War was not the first instance that implacable fear and hatred of the Soviets outweighed all other concerns--moral and otherwise--in the making of U.S. foreign policy. And as the current fiasco in Nigeria illustrates, nor was it the last...