Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Leo's distaste for discrimination lawsuits, the Texaco case sets a healthy precedent. If corporations will not combat racism on moral grounds, perhaps being forced to pay millions of dollars in atonement will spur American businesses to combat and prevent injustice...
...closing thoughts in the excerpts taken from Robert Coles' book The Moral Intelligence of Children [EDUCATION, Jan. 20] struck something deep within me, pricking my conscience. Coles writes that we must be kind and wade in over and over again with a commitment to help others. To go out of our own way to find opportunities to do good is the epitome of kindness, especially when one must overcome obstacles in order to do good. I would add to Coles' words that this "commitment to others" is not only the "heart of the journey" but also the journey...
...Jews in the murder of two Christian children, and calling upon non-Jews for vengeance. Such a scenario--as heinous as it may be--is familiar to the European landscape. Only in the United States does our unfamiliarity with such anti-Semitic assaults on Jews also assault our moral consciences...
...first indication that something was amiss came Thursday, when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki called two jurors into chambers to question them about letters sent to them by Brenda Moran and Gina Rhodes Rossborough, two jurors in the Simpson criminal trial. The letters offered moral support and touted the services of a particular media agent. Fujisaki immediately launched an investigation into the matter, since it is illegal to attempt to contact jurors. A team of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant confiscated Moran's computer and files from her home. Moran admitted that she wrote part...
...reason" for making Star Wars "was to give young people an honest, wholesome fantasy life, the kind my generation had." Today, as a divorced father of three children (two of whom he adopted on his own), Lucas takes seriously the notion that entertainers have an obligation to promote positive moral values in their work. He talks earnestly about what artists "teach" with their creations--and with a little prodding he even criticizes himself for the scene played for laughs in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones drops his bullwhip and casually guns down an Arab swordsman. In fact...