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...catalyzes and encourages [professors’] research” through fellowships and grants, he said, while simultaneously stimulating public interest through events such as the symposium...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Symposium Examines Climate Change | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...care debate ignores the central issue frustrating its advancement. Both conservative and liberal camps should realize that the chief problem is one of theory, not policy. Correcting health care should not be construed primarily as a matter of dollars and cents, but seen as a referendum, in essence, on public morality...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Centering the Health-Care Debate | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...that each person should be free to pursue his desires so long as he does not harm anyone else; second, that such desires cannot be judged inferior to those of someone else. Taken together, these two judgments mean that health-care reform is incompatible with our national moral ethos. Public option or not, finding some way to extend care to the uninsured requires at least some sacrifice by those who are adequately covered under the current system. On an economic level, reform includes inherently sacrificial effort. Welcome or not, redistribution of our fixed resources to a wider group must inconvenience...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Centering the Health-Care Debate | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...Because society’s moral axioms enervate attempts to convince the public to join this slim majority. Since Americans now shy away from a hierarchy of moral preferences, even those who would maintain their current care based on selfishness cannot be condemned. If forsaking current comforts for others would not be obligatory under our contemporary moral decorum, appeals for medical reform would then lose nearly all their persuasive force. While objectors rightly note that inaction hurts the uninsured, precisely because the currently comfortable might intend no harm, this complaint proves relevant but non-essential. In our modern mindset, sacrifice...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Centering the Health-Care Debate | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...Duadji was caught speaking to a corruption suspect on a KPK phone tap, the police have been trying to discredit the group. On Oct. 29, two KPK commissioners, Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, were arrested on charges of abuse of authority and taking bribes. Several days later, with public demand growing for an investigation, SBY established a special team of academics, lawyers and a former police official to "verify the facts" surrounding the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protesters Rally for Indonesia's Anti-Graft Unit | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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