Word: moralizer
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...television group, to negotiate the iPod deal with Apple and gave her the autonomy to close it in three days. While the Internet group rebuilt the Disney website, Iger made himself available as a sounding board but left them alone--until the one night when he personally delivered moral support, in the form of two cases of Red Bull. "My role is to create a vision and strategy and then lead people in the direction," Iger says. "But I allow them to get there on their...
...described his 50-year career as a search to find out "what, if anything, philosophy was good for." A lover of politics and literature, Rorty rejected such traditional analytic questions as, What is the meaning of life? Instead he caused a stir--and irked critics, who called him a "moral relativist"--with books like Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which advocated pragmatism, the view that real-life interactions and consequences define truth and meaning. He was 75 and had pancreatic cancer...
...Skills of the American Workforce would produce the scientists and engineers necessary to achieve energy independence. When you put the jigsaw puzzle together, the nation that emerges is more equitable, more efficient, with a reinvigorated citizenry-a safer and more powerful nation, braced by the power of moral example as well as military supremacy...
Today’s Harvard is also one where the students are demonstrating an extraordinarily high sense of moral and ethical responsibility even before they leave the confines of the Ivory Tower. In the past five months, I have had the honor of meeting with students who spend their spare time preparing immigrants for citizenship, teaching in the Boston public schools, and working on homelessness policy. Today’s Harvard students are aware of and engaged in the broader Boston community in a way that I believe exceeds the standards we set in the 70s and 80s. Harvard should...
...Committee’s answer to the apparent substance-based moral depravity and ignorance of the student body was a policy that holds the leaders of student groups personally responsible in front of the Administrative Board of the College if harm befalls a severely-intoxicated student at an event held by that group. The policy also superfluously codifies a preexisting “amnesty policy” that grants protection to intoxicated students and the faithful friend or friends who get them medical help...