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DEREK BOK HAS CHOSEN to emphasize professional ethics, the academic study of how moral principles can be applied to situations that arise in professional life. Professional ethics are, almost by definition, situational: they teach one how to react to moral dilemmas, how best to conduct oneself in a given set of circumstances. They rarely, however, strike at basic, absolute moral principles of right and wrong--they lay out the accepted lines of conduct, but rarely examine the difference between what is accepted and what is right. They set the standards of a profession, but they cannot set the guidelines...
A: I must explain my position on this. The political questions of fighting, violence, revolution--these are not my profession. I think that violence in politics is a very hard thing; it leads to a very large portion of blood, death and so on.
To combat inflation, Jimmy Carter has proposed a relatively lean fiscal 1980 budget of $531.6 billion with a deficit of $29 billion. Congress may want to reduce it even more. At his first meeting with legislative leaders on the second day of the session, Carter was pleased to learn from...
In classic Agatha Christie fashion, nearly everybody in Elaine's had motives to blue-pencil Foster: unforgotten literary feuds, unhealed editorial schisms, unfavorable reviews, stolen story ideas, purloined wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics...
...IMPOSSIBLE TO believe that a man who agonized for so many years over the state of our professional theater, who took an incredible risk in abandoning his position at the top of the critical profession to do something about saving that theater, who supervised and participated in the construction of a graduate curriculum in drama that will continue to affect schools and theaters throughout this country, who displays in his writing a passionate and unstinting dedication to the improvement of our culture--that such a man would waste as many as ten years of his life at Harvard ignoring...