Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard students have not waited for a state decision. In an effort to drum up support for her case, Schkolnick has tried to receive endorsement for her complaint from the Undergraduate Council. Though the council voted down a motion to support the complaint on moral grounds. It did approve a grant to Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT), a new student group pledged to support the Mather senior's case SWAT won approval as an official student organization from the College last month...
Cooper argues convincingly that I wouldn't have criticized him had the minority in question been black students or women. And of course, he is right. However, he doesn't stop there. In brilliant rhetorical style he advances from a defensive position into a high-flung moral argument, invoking Tocqueville's "tyranny of the majority" to defend his representation of that poor, tyrannized campus minority, final club members. Mr. Cooper will not, he says, "yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination" against final club members...
...process can speed up for some professors.Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen onlyjoined the faculty last year, but he is alreadyteaching Moral Reasoning 36, "Facts and Ethics,"this semester. He said administrators urged him toteach in the Core when he first arrived atHarvard...
...soldiers and civilians in response to reports of brutality; I see the growth in recent weeks of both secular and religious peace movements. And I see a growing weariness among many Israelis who just want to be rid of the problem of occupation. Do not let your own moral outrage paint you a picture of an Israel halfway down the ethical chute...
...Grossman spent seven weeks there before writing of the daily lives of the Palestinians and the Jewish settlers, who call the conquered lands Judea and Samaria. His well- turned personal reportage, which in book form became an Israeli best seller, restated an old controversial question: At what political and moral cost does Israel take under its iron wing the lives of some 1.5 million Palestinians, many of whom are landless and jobless refugees from...