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The Moral Reasoning requirement at Harvard is supposed to help us formulate questions about and fashion a response to the moral dilemmas which face us. It is specifically designed "to show that it is possible to reflect reasonably about such matters as justice, obligation and personal authority." Yet there seems...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Moral Quandries and the Core | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

In the face of these quagmires, I suggest a more rigorous Harvard requirement for the study of ethics and related subjects. I am not suggesting mandatory detailed exegetical work or a focus on biblical archaeology, but rather an examination of the journey of discovery and acknowledgement of the correlative duty...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Moral Quandries and the Core | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

As Perot rose in the polls last spring, the press stopped treating him as a novelty and began to examine his record. Perot's pat response, instead of addressing the critical stories or shrugging them off, was to blame "the Republican Party dirty-tricks committee." But Perot's real problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot-Noia | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

"Legacy"--preference for alumni children and athletes--plays an important role in the admissions process. Jerome Karabel and David Karen wrote in The New York Times on December 8, 1990 that "the image of institutions like Harvard as bastions of academic meritocracy that bend their rigorous standards only for certain...

Author: By Chinh Pham, | Title: Searching for Diversity Beyond Harvard Yard | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

Those being a fairly rigorous education inclassical literature, a life-long openness toelectronic media and its influences, liketelevision, rock n' roll, television commercials,movies, newspapers, magazines. I am omnivorousabout all of these things. I can't devour enoughnewspapers and magazines in a day, and I've alwaysbeen this way. It...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: News Books | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

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