Word: roles
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...variety of angles. "The chairman is no visionary, and he's no fool. His attitude is multi-dimensional, and part of his attitude is that you have to teach ethics along with the rest," Fleischman said. "Part of the job is to give an official imprimateur to the role of ethics, showing what the problems...
Piper, who is playing an instrumental role in the B-School's planned review, said he has spent the past six months communicating with ethics centers about their programs, in an effort to find models for Harvard to follow. However, few schools have chosen to integrate ethics into their classes although they require students to take a course on ethics...
...even as his speeches carefully articulate the distictions between personal the guilt of the perpetrators of Nazi crimes and the collective guilt of the German nation, critics charge that von Weizsacker's own failed effort to come to terms with his family's role in the Nazi regime illustrates the inexorable instinct of people to forget a painful past...
...Rice professor of history and Harvard Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz, claim that the younger von Weizsacker has distorted the historical record to exonerate his father. Even defenders of the German president concede that he may have a blind spot when it comes to assessing his father's role in Nazi Germany...
However, Harvard does sometimes need to emphasize issues which are of special interest often only to the University. As one of the top six producers of low-level radio active waste, Harvard has taken an active role in helping draft legislation concerning the disposal these wastes. Research activities at Harvard hospitals and research centers, which produce some toxic wastes, are very affected by such legislation, Shattuck says...