Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against the Germans." Peretz truly calls this delirious history, but the delirium isn't mine but his, for I've never called what Jews did in 1945 a Holocaust. Indeed, I specifically write on the second page of An Eye for an Eye, "This was no Holocaust or the moral equivalent of the Holocaust." --John B. Sack...
...Court be listed as Foreign Cultures as well? Perhaps there is unnecessary overlap here, especially considering the sparse number of Foreign Cultures courses offered each semester, and their tendency to parse students into classes by virtue of their own ethnicity. And couldn't a philosophy department class suit a "moral reasoning" requirement just as well as Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice"? Consider the moral relativism already embodied in that category; then consider the limited number of Moral Reasoning classes offered this semester...
...emphysema. In another affirmation of the obvious, Liggett acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive substance. That refuted the sworn denials that seven industry leaders, including a Liggett representative, made before Congress in 1994. Says LeBow of the thinking behind last week's confessions: "It was a business, a moral and a personal decision...
...peace with security, the deaths in Tel Aviv cannot help raising questions about whether his way is working. When reporters standing amid the cafe wreckage suggested Har Homa had contributed to the bloodshed, Netanyahu bristled, "Nothing justifies terrorism." He is surely right about that, and there is an incalculable moral difference between building on disputed land and setting off a bomb in a cafe. But violence is the only real lever the Palestinians have in their conflict with the Israelis, so scenes like that in Tel Aviv are certain to be repeated...
...hardly imagine contemporary black sports superstars taking an equally brave stand on a divisive moral issue. Most are far too concerned with raking in endorsement dollars to risk any controversy. In 1990 Michael Jordan, who occupies the psychological spot that Robinson pioneered as the dominant black athlete of his time, declined to endorse his fellow black North Carolinian Harvey Gantt over troglodyte racist Jesse Helms in a close contest for the U.S. Senate on the grounds that "Republicans buy shoes too." More recently, Jordan brushed off questions about whether Nike, which pays him $20 million a year in endorsement fees...