Word: morals
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...sight of two planes careening into the World Trade Center is a harrowing intrusion upon the petty, superficial world these characters inhabit. It is a dark reproach of their moral frivolity—of liposuction, children’s clothes, dinner parties, and casual adultery...
...soon to tell if Sept. 11 will usher in a new era of moral seriousness, an end to the age of anomie and irony. But if Messud’s superb novel is any indication, our inanity and self-delusion may be more enduring than we think...
...unveiled with the task force’s original preliminary report in October—seemed to die quietly.In its letter, the eight-member task force explained that “courses dealing with religion...can be readily accommodated in other categories.” For example, the Moral Reasoning category can encompass the “normative issues concerning what we do and do not have reason to do and believe,” task force co-chair and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons wrote in an e-mail.“The other categories can easily accommodate descriptive...
...including six additional packets that were given in clinics—compared to an average of eleven packets a week when a prescription was necessary. But, said Gharib, the slight decrease was “probably not statistically significant.” UHS currently offers students with moral objections to abortion a refund for the portion of term-bill fees that funds elective abortions—but the refund will not be extended to the funding of Plan B, Gharib wrote. Plan B does not abort embryos implanted in the uterus but rather prevents ovulation and possibly fertilization and implantation...
...force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating “Reason and Faith,” the most novel component of their preliminary plan for general education released in October. It boldfaced the words “moral reasoning” in a two-line description of a category on ethics, directly borrowing from the current Core Curriculum. And it kept several other components of the Core, including the requirement of two science courses, a year of foreign language training, and one course in a category much like...