Word: josephson
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Navy ROTC's Acting Executive Officer, Lt.Walter S. Josephson, said Navy's return to Harvardwould provide greater convenience for Harvardstudents, but would weaken the numerical strengthof the Navy ROTC unit...
...Josephson added that ROTC officers areinterested in the council resolution because "itwas passed by a pretty significant margin...
Many scholars believe that sleaze comes in cycles and that this decade's ethical looseness was partly inspired by the deregulatory, anything-goes mood of the Reagan era. "People convince themselves that a new norm of acceptability applies because of the general atmosphere of corruption," says Michael Josephson, founder of the Josephson Institute for the Advancement of Ethics in Los Angeles. The emphasis on money as an absolute barometer of success was equally corrupting. Says Donald Shriver, head of the Union Theological Seminary: "The Protestant work heritage is being stood on its head because making money has become a good...
...constitutional law at the University of Southern California, opposes any Iran-contra pardons, but he sees no moral issue involved. Since pardons by definition go to the guilty, he says, there is no way to argue the ethics of who deserves one and who does not. But Michael Josephson, a former Loyola law professor who now heads his own ethics institute in Los Angeles, notes an important distinction. A pardon, he believes, should never be issued by a person involved in the case, as Reagan is in the Iran-contra scandal. No President ever seems to have done so. "Even...
...most common argument against pardoning the Iranscam defendants is that their actions are too serious to forgive without repentance. "A pardon would say that the democratic process is only a valid one sometimes, and that highly committed patriots can set it aside -- like Dr. Strangelove," notes Ethicist Josephson. He adds, "It would send a message that there are times when we will permit high-level Government officials to lie to Congress. How could we trust anything afterward...