Word: moralizers
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...maintain a fortress of secrecy around him while employing Washington-style political tactics as a way to embarrass or humiliate colleagues. In Summers’ inner circle, economics is about power rather than principle. And this debilitating corporate worldview—where market values are more important than moral values—constitutes the real threat to Harvard’s reputation and standing...
...educator, I was surprised at the ''plus ca change . . .'' impression given by your piece on children's toys (LIVING, Dec. 22). Are you assuming that Rambo occupies the same role as Daniel Boone or Superman in children's fantasies and contributes in the same way to their moral and social development? If the historical trend toward more explicitly violent heroes is so benign, why have we seen such a dramatic increase in real violence in our society over the past several decades...
...HAVE ACCUSED PRESIDENT BUSH OF "MORAL VACANCY." WOULD YOU CONTRAST HIM WITH A GUY LIKE SHERMAN? There's a passage in the book about the inability to understand death, when Sherman is giving a kind of a soliloquy. His troops have taken a fort just before entering Savannah, and they lie down to sleep beside the dead bodies of the Confederates who were defending the fort. He's drinking a cup of wine, smoking a cigar and thinking about the difference between sleep and death, and how hard it is to understand death. Some people make the effort to understand...
...back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions ... For years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural ... But now an old array of tough questions--practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical--is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less a necessary, deterrent to murder? Is it fair? That is, does it fall equally on the wealthy white surgeon ... and the indigent black with court-appointed (and possibly perfunctory) counsel? Most fundamental, is it civilized to take...
...objection to divestment was that a University’s money shouldn’t be used to create political change,” Bhatnagar wrote. “That is not what divestment is about—it’s about ridding the University of moral culpability and shame through its investments in a genocidal regime.”—Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...