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It may be that Disney's Golden Age is only beginning. The company will break ground this summer for a $2 billion Euro Disneyland near Paris, which is expected to open in 1992. At the Florida park, Disney is building $1.4 billion worth of new attractions. In animation, the company...
Bok looked at the moral scandals surrounding Ivan Boesky, Oliver North and Jim Bakker, and told us there is "a national preoccupation" surrounding ethics--one that will soon bring universities "under scrutiny." He treated the reader to a three-page history of moral instruction in this country. He charted his...
Thousands of criminal offenders routinely petition the President of the U.S. for a pardon. Provided they have served their jail terms, stayed clean for five to seven years, and filled in a four-page form explaining their case, a pardon may be forthcoming -- but the process is likely to take...
Most lawyers object to pardons before a trial. "To pardon is to forgive," says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers. "It's odd to forgive before guilt is established." It has rarely happened. For most of the nation's history, pardons were basically exemptions from some or all punishment...
The ethical weight thus seems overwhelmingly in opposition to any pardons. But if the President decides to follow his own moral compass, it will probably be out of a sense of loyalty to those involved and a determination, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote of an earlier pardon, "that...