CEOs' Top Five Ethics Priorities

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

Decency in America

Is the United States facing a national epidemic of vulgarity? Such worries surfaced well before pop singer Janet Jackson's breast was partially exposed during the Super Bowl game earlier this year. But the incident reminds us that our language of public discourse, and the visual imagery accompanying it, have been shifting toward more explicit reference to sexual and excretory functions. That's an unfortunate trend....

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3. What They're Saying:

Defunded

"It reminds me of the McCarthy era. We're blackballed. They've defunded us, and even that isn't enough. It's unbelievable."

-- Sterling Scruggs, a former official with the United Nations Population Fund, criticizing the U.S. government for allegedly pursuing an anti-abortion crusade by cutting off funding and pressuring other agencies and outside groups to sever relations with the fund....

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4. Omitting Apology, Connecticut Governor Resigns amid Scandal

HARTFORD, Connecticut

Cutting short what had been a stellar political career, Connecticut Gov. John Rowland will resign this week under suspicion of accepting gifts and favors from contractors doing business with the state....

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5. Supreme Court Enters Fray over Judges' Role in Sentencing

WASHINGTON

In a move that could overturn nearly 25 years of reforms, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled last week that judges should operate within federally mandated sentencing guidelines when deciding the punishments of guilty defendants, saying leeway from the guidelines must come from juries....

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6. Patients Cannot Sue HMOs for Denying Prescribed Care: Supreme Court

WASHINGTON

People who suffer harm after their HMO refuses to cover medical care recommended by their doctor cannot be sued for damages, the Supreme Court ruled last week, noting that Congress has so far refused to authorize that right....

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7. Former Vivendi Head Taken into Custody by French Investigators

PARIS

Jean-Marie Messier, the former head of the nearly bankrupted media empire Vivendi Universal, was taken into custody last week by French police as part of a formal investigation into alleged corruption....

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8. Student Given Probation for Probing Airline Safety Measures

BALTIMORE

A college student who smuggled dangerous items aboard airplanes last year, saying he was trying to demonstrate weaknesses in security measures, was sentenced to fines and two years' probation last week....

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9. Key Players in Diamond Industry Ratify Pact against 'Blood Diamonds'

PARIS

Gem-quality diamonds, long valued for the four C's -- carat, color, clarity, and cut -- will now be marked with a fifth C for "clean," to prove that they have not helped fuel bloody wars or child labor....

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10. Some California Teachers Allegedly Helped Students Cheat, Paper Reports

LOS ANGELES

More than 400 public school teachers in California have been investigated for possible cheating in the past five years, the "Los Angeles Times" reported last week after a review of state education records....

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11. Hockey Player Charged with Criminal Assault for On-Ice Hit

VANCOUVER

Vancouver Canucks hockey player Todd Bertuzzi was charged last week with criminal assault for his brutal mid-game hit on the Colorado Avalanche's Steve Moore, whose neck was broken and career possibly ended....

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12. Research Report:

New Survey Measures Ethics Priorities of Today's CEOs

From the Business Roundtable:

"Today the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics -- a first-of-its-kind ethics center formed in partnership between Business Roundtable and leading faculty from the country's top business schools -- announced key findings from its initial research project, 'Mapping the Terrain.'..."

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

Rules of Conduct

"Rules of conduct, whatever they may be, are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good."

-- Bertrand Russell (English mathematician and philosopher, 1872-1970)

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