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From the start, the Kennedy School's mission -- to create a "public policy profession," in Harvard President Derek Bok's words -- has been controversial. To the tweedy professors at the university who like their professions traditional and their academics pure, the new training ground smacks of a trade school for...
The movement to own and carry guns is spread fairly evenly among age groups, across professions and around the country. "These are young women, older women; many are professional, but some are housewives," says Barbara Mueller, vice president of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "They don't have a cigarette...
Seven scholars and professionals will converge on Harvard next September as the 1988-89 Fellows of the Program in Ethics and the Professions.
The newly named fellows, selected from a pool of more than 70 applicants, will research issues related to ethics in their respective fields and take part in a seminar on ethical issues common to all professions, according to a written University statement.
The University created the Program in Ethics and the Professions in 1986 to address President Bok's longtime fear that professional schools are not training students to act ethically in their fields. In past annual reports on the teaching of law and medicine in America, the president has criticized existing...