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"Most ethics become important when the roof falls in." So said TV Producer Fred Friendly recently as he plunged into the making of a PBS series designed to examine the tangled state of American ethics. His task could not have been more timely or more daunting, nor could his comment...
With so many candidates sounding like virtuous, angry populists, it is doubtful that any one of them can collect heavy dividends from the theme of righteousness alone. Similarly, marital fidelity by itself is not going to be a big draw. Instead, these will probably prove to be what pollsters call...
Last week Gephardt was waging a trade war on two fronts. In Congress, he was pressing for passage of the Gephardt amendment, which would add protectionist teeth to the pending trade bill by mandating quotas or tariffs if a rival nation sustained a large trade surplus with the U.S. and...
"A pressing national policy issue is whatexplains the decline of U.S. competitivenessabroad and the declineing rate of U.S.productivity growth. A common villain in thisdiscussion is the taxation of corporate capital,and Larry has done a great deal of workunderstanding [this villain]," Poterba said
While divestment remains the most pressing issue before the Overseers, this year's prodivestment candidates deserve credit for their progressive stances and apparent willingness to take action on a broad array of issues. That several of the 12 University-approved candidates used their election statements to proclaim positions on divestment...