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Mann read an excerpt from the play, contrasting a police officer who decries the moral decay of his town with “Sister Boom Boom,” a gay man dressed as a Catholic nun—both people that Mann interviewed...
DIED. JOHN RAWLS, 81, gentle giant of liberalism, who changed the study of political philosophy from one of logic and science to one concerned primarily with social and moral justice; in Lexington, Mass. The longtime Harvard professor's 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, revived the idea--promoted by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau but abandoned for much of the 20th century--of the social contract: the idea that society should be built on a mutually beneficial agreement among its members. His views on ethics and the rights of individuals have influenced the debate on affirmative action, welfare and assisted suicide...
...expulsion at all (Editorial, “An 82-Year-Old Mistake,” Dec. 6). To exaggerate as “cruel persecution” a very appropriate disciplinary move by the College is to declare that the College should not attempt to maintain any level of moral decency whatever. Today, indeed, as the College freely distributes contraceptive devices to encourage sexual activity among the students, it positively subverts traditional morality...
...College should have its disciplinary policies not simply to maintain order on campus—thus its various regulations on alcohol and partying—but also to act in loco parentis by upholding for us at least something of a moral framework. This is all the more important during the college years, when arriving adolescents learn to manage their freedom and thus become adults...
...protégé. At the least, the opposition says, Kenyatta is unlikely to pursue Moi and his allies for alleged corruption, just as Moi left the Kenyatta family alone after the death of Jomo. Kenyatta (who refused TIME's request for an interview) talks about the need for moral regeneration in Kenya but fudges the question of whether he would prosecute corrupt leaders. "I would like us to draw a line in the sand," he told a press conference recently. "Let's learn from the mistakes of the past and move together into the future." The opposition, a newly...