High School Sports Falling Foul in Teaching Life Lessons

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

Dave Brubeck and Artistic Courage

What is artistic courage? What makes a musician break with tradition and venture into new aesthetic spaces? Is it the same as moral courage? Those questions were on my mind last week when legendary jazz pianist Dave Brubeck came to Camden to perform with his sons Chris and Dan....

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3. What They're Saying:

What is at Stake Transcends Politics

"What is at stake here transcends politics. What is at stake is the right of all Americans -- Democrats, Republicans, and independents, all Americans -- to peacefully voice their dissent to their government."

-- Jeff Rank, speaking at a Washington news conference last week after announcing a federal suit challenging the right of the U.S. government to sanitize the appearance of political events by keeping protestors away....

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4. Congress, President Allow Assault Weapons Ban to Expire

WASHINGTON

Despite widespread public support for the measure, the U.S. Congress refused last week to renew a decade-long ban on the sale of 19 specific types of semiautomatic assault weapons in what many say was a concession to election-year politics....

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5. Ex-Medicare Head Should Forfeit Salary: GAO

WASHINGTON

Former Medicare program chief Thomas Scully should be forced to repay his annual salary because he blocked a subordinate from providing Congress with requested information last year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has concluded....

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6. Top Medical Journals Demand New Transparency in Drug Trials

WASHINGTON

The world's top medical journals last week signed on to a growing campaign to increase the transparency of drug testing, saying they will tighten publishing guidelines to require advance registration of all drug trials....

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7. Canadian Group Sues for Right to Air Anti-Consumerism Ads

TORONTO

The group Adbusters last week filed suit against Canada's major TV networks and the federal government, accusing them of putting corporate interests ahead of free speech by refusing to air the group's ads....

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8. Citigroup Ordered to Shut Down Some Japanese Operations

TOKYO

The Japanese government last week ordered Citigroup to shut down its private banking business for elite customers, claiming a history of "serious violations" and abuses that breached the public trust....

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9. Investigations into Hollinger Transactions Continue

TORONTO

An Ontario Superior Court justice has revealed that he ordered an independent inspector to look into alleged self-dealings by Conrad Black and other senior officials at Hollinger Inc. after learning that the accounting firm KPMG had resigned as auditors of the company last November....

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10. NY Diocese Criticized over Contract Dispute

BROOKLYN

Known for its criticisms of corporations that have records of poor working conditions and union busting, the Catholic Church took a little heat itself last week over its treatment of schoolteachers in Brooklyn....

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11. Research Report:

The Ethics of High School Sports

From the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition:

"High school sports do teach positive values and build character, but in many cases young athletes -- especially males -- simply learn to cheat, engage in improper gamesmanship, and indulge in excessive violence...."

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12. Quote from the Ethics File:

Where the Art Resides

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes -- ah, that is where the art resides."

-- Artur Schnabel (Austrian pianist and composer, 1882-1951)

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