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...nation's guardian?like extracting it from politics and business and making it adhere strictly to human rights. "Reform is not solely the TNI's responsibility," says military analyst Kusnanto Anggoro. "Civilians, too, must decide what kind of changes it should undergo. The military says, 'OK, we'll obey your rules. But you have to decide what the rules...
...guards’ replacements, contracted from Security Systems Incorporated, can’t provide the same quality of service. They’re obligated to obey SSI’s directions, even when a faculty or staff member asks them to make a one-time special exception. Such refusals are not always accepted gracefully...
...Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III asked the club to shut down. The previous fall the club had closed for a month when 10 initiates were sent to University Health Services after consuming too much alcohol, but this time the club refused to obey administrators...
People respond to incentives, the economists say, and it’s starting to look like they’re right. According to a study released last year by Wojciech Kopczuk and Joel Slemrod, two researchers at the University of Michigan, Americans obey the injunctions of their pocketbooks even when life and death are at stake. The study, which examined changes in the estate tax over the past century, found a statistically significant correlation between the exact timing of death and the relevant tax advantages to the decedent’s estate. In other words, when a reduction...
...dehumanizing, a step that is to be condemned because it puts the moment of creation outside the body into a mechanical environment? To some thinkers, the Oldham experiment poses no problems. Says Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary: "The Browns were trying to obey the commandment to have children. When nature does not permit conception, it is desirable to try to outwit nature. The Talmud teaches that God desires man's cooperation." For many others, in vitro fertilization is fraught with moral dangers. British Geneticist Robert J. Berry, a consultant to a board...