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...illustrate the weakness of the old system, experts on ethics say. "Ethics are so prominent right now because of the wild coincidence of people in pulpit, people in politics and people in government transgressing," says Edward M. Fleischman '54, who is a member of the Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commission. "But we won't know for 30 years whether this period is really a crisis," he adds...
...Harvard as the nation's foremost center of ethical learning. In addition to the University-wide ethics program instituted last fall, ethical considerations at Harvard were enhanced by the Business School's receiving a $30 million endowment--including a $20 million donation from outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman John S.R. Shad--to fund a comphrehensive ethics program...
...insider trading scandals rocked Wall Street, Business School Dean John H. MacArthur announced that Harvard would set up a $30 million ethics endowment, two-thirds of which came from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman John S.R. Shad. Rather than solving the B-School's ethical dilemmas, the money only caused more difficulties as the School sought ways to spend...
...brothers' first attempt at controlled powered flight belongs in history's blooper file. Orville's timepiece read 3 1/2 sec. when the Flyer reared and bounced into a hill. Wilbur had used too much rudder and stalled 15 ft. over the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville's turn came three days later, Dec. 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. He took the clattering rig to an altitude of 10 ft. and traveled through the air for about 40 yds. before coming down hard enough to crack a skid...
...hand of a North Carolina surfman, who was told when to squeeze. His timing was perfect, but Wilbur was too excited to punch his stopwatch and had to estimate the duration of the event. Ten years later, a curtly precise Orville described what had happened during those unofficial 12 sec.: "a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started...