Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screen split. On one side of it, Ronald Reagan was seen ambling sidelong and smiling across the South Lawn of the White House. He waved to an off- camera crowd, deflected shouted questions with a shrug, and at the steps to his helicopter, smartly saluted the Marine guard standing at attention...
...that moment, on the left side of the television screen, another Marine, Oliver North, leaned forward in the witness chair in the Senate Caucus Room, listening, his eyes gone now from disingenuous to wounded, then brightening to a righteous glint...
Blip. The Reagan side of the picture disappeared. The President's helicopter, Americans were told, would lift off the White House lawn and bear him away, toward a speech in Connecticut that had nothing to do with the Iran- contra hearings. It was a strange effect, a kind of moral vanishing. Reagan at that moment became an absence...
Rusty has spent the better part of his adult life investigating crimes like the one with which he now is charged. "How do you enjoy seeing the world from the other side?" Rusty's lawyer asks him before his arraignment...
Harvard educators must devise a means of teaching ethical thinking and fostering the development of moral values for all without erring too far on the side of Bennett's moral imperialism. This is a dilemma that has beset many a thousand in Professor Michael Sandel's course, "Justice," not to mention our nation's educators. For starters, the University should add another subdivision to the Core that examines the values, traditions, and development of Western civilization and thought. This would provide knowledge of a moral structure that has underpinned the society in which we have lived for several millenia...