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...Sissela Bok, distinguished fellow of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, said she felt that the desire of people to die was a symptom of the inadequate care that the current medical system supplies. She cited a study asserting that, "70 percent of those polled would prefer palliative care to euthanasia...
...Deane burned with a special flame," Bok said. "No one was more loyal or more devoted to the Harvard community. No one was a more faithful friend or quicker than she to reach out to someone in need. Sissela and I will miss her very much...
...Marshall lying, or maybe stretching the truth? I'd say so. (Regardless, her failure to act indicates a serious breach of responsibility.) Sissela Bok, the preeminent American philosopher and wife of Harvard's former president, explains incidents such as these in her book, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (1978). "The powerful," Bok writes, "tell lies believing they have a greater than ordinary understanding of what is at stake." By "powerful," Bok likely had in mind a nation's civic and military leaders. Still, her thoughts have a good deal of resonance in the web of Harvard...
...tell" is corrosive at several levels. "By engaging in this hypocrisy," says the philosopher Sissela Bok, "by saying something matters and then ignoring it, by mandating duplicity, the government will further reduce the public's trust in the honesty of its officials." (According to a TIME/CNN poll conducted last fall, 63% of Americans already have little or no confidence that government leaders talk straight.) "It is ironic that the military should participate in sanctioning a category of falsehood by silence," says New York University law professor Stephen Gillers. "More than any institution in society, probably including the family, the military...
...philosopher Sissela Bok insisted that "everything does not have to be known." She said "that complete deprivation of privacy would make the candidate feel like a "hunted animal," and the experience would prove "dehumanizing...