Word: plea
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...offered up by Lewis as a partial defense of the College's current practice, is absurd on its face. An investigative body must operate on the assumption that it has the power to get its suspects to tell the truth. To act otherwise is to make every case a plea bargain, in which Harvard makes a major concession at the start of a case, merely in return for the professor's decision to tell the truth. The College should act with the assumption that its faculty members are at the minimum, truthful, and that their lies can be detected...
...tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory." Summing up the U.S. dilemma, Haig asked his fellow O.A.S. delegates: "Is there a country among us that has not counted itself a friend of both [Britain and Argentina]?" Overriding a plea by Haig, the O.A.S. the next day approved, by a vote of 17 to 0, an Argentine-sponsored resolution condemning Britain's "unjustified and disproportionate armed attacks" and asking the U.S. to lift the economic and military sanctions that it had imposed against Buenos Aires last month...
Later that day, during an address to the Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales, John Paul made a moving plea for peace, saying that he was in close union with the bishops of both Britain and Argentina. Said he: "Together, my brother bishops, we must proclaim that peace is possible...
This approach seems to constitute an ethic of irresponsibility. Still, we can grant Bok his contention that academic freedom would be imperiled. But it is harder to accept his argument that institutions should have neither friends nor enemies, only interests. This notion lies behind his plea for neutrality in the nonacademic realm: a university must protect its vested interests for the sake of academic freedom. Thus he focuses on method instead of effect; thus he strives to make detached cost-benefit analyses; thus his motives and his morals are in the end utilitarian. But there is no organic, causal connection...
...personal plea, let me urge those of you who are thinking of calling a faculty member of graduate student at home on work-related matters: don't. Even if you think you must, don't. And if the world is coming to an end, don't wait past 9 p.m. The children might be asleep. Jorge I. Dominguez Professor of Government