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Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.  (http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/)

Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:30 PM:

Eliot Spitzer (former Governor and Attorney General, New York)

Emerson Hall 105 **This is a ticketed event. See below for more information.**

This is a ticketed event.

Tickets are free and can be obtained in person at the Harvard Box Office at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue. Tickets are also available by phone for a fee by calling 617.496.2222.

There is a ticket limit of 2 per person. Tickets are valid until 4:15pm on the day of the lecture; ticket holders should claim their seats by that time.

 

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Thu, 11/05/2009 - 14:56 | 121078 Rusty_Shackleford
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Gotta' love it.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 14:58 | 121082 AR
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Ohh, this is good. What's next, a government sponsored and enabled Ponzi Scheme? 

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:00 | 121264 Anonymous
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Already have this...Its called the National Debt

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 14:59 | 121083 geopol
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Friday November 13th Bernie Madoff..

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:03 | 121092 chet
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Future ethicists, know thine enemy.  I'm surprised colleges still bother with ethics.  How quaint.

(This reminds me of seeing G. Gordon Liddy on CNN back in the day criticizing the Clinton White House for misconduct.)

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:45 | 121162 NYPoke
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I think you meant "how quant".

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 10:32 | 122145 Anonymous
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FTW!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:03 | 121093 Daedal
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Let me guess... $5000/hr?

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:10 | 121104 bugs_
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Harvard.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:07 | 121192 Anonymous
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Ha! Ha! Ha! Hah-vahd! *cough*

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:16 | 121114 chumbawamba
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This is Harvard after all.  Former home of Larry Summers.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:36 | 121142 geopol
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Even they threw him out..

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:06 | 121189 dnarby
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LOL Larry was right, the stats proved it.

Not that facts ever get in the way of anyone's political biases!

Thing is, the majority at Harvard probably feel prostitution should be legal, so they'll overlook those little indiscretions.  After all, nobody got hurt, right?  Heh-heh...

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:22 | 121124 everaware
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Bye the way. You might not realize this but the clocks were turned back Saturday night and your time postings are still reflecting daylight saving. Ah we love a reminder of human complexity, memory, full moons and Halloween.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:37 | 121146 Anonymous
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they should have ashley dupree instead

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:37 | 121148 Prophet of Wise
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The Charter of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, under the seal of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and bearing date May 31st A.D. 1650

Whereas, through the good hand of God many well devoted persons have beene and dayly are moved and stirred up to give and bestowe sundry guiftes legacies lands and Revennewes for the advancement of all good literature artes and Sciences at Harvard College in Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and to the maintenance of the President and Fellowes and for all accomodations of Buildings and all other necessary provisions that may conduce to the education of English and Indian youth of this Country in knowledge and godliness. L.S. THOMAS DUDLEY, Governor  

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:09 | 121195 Anonymous
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it's time to start a new college with said
aspirations in reverence of our creator.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:37 | 121149 Neo of Zion
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Edmund Safra - wasn't that the nemesis of famed typewriter user and cyclist Martin Armstrong?

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:49 | 121244 Pat Shuff
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  Safracide is painless it brings on many changes.

  - Hotlips

 

  She's not a real nurse.

 

  -Ted Maher

 

Neither is he.

 

-Nurse Ratched

 

Case closed, I feel better now.

 

-McMurphy

 

The guest list and seating for the service were prepared by Lily. Seven hundred attended—or a thousand, depending on which paper you read—including such celebrated names as Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, who gave one of the eulogies, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, former U.N. secretary-general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Hubert de Givenchy, the French couturier, who had been Lily Safra’s favorite designer until his retirement. No member of Monaco’s ruling family attended, a fact that was remarked on by many people, since Safra was considered the most important person in Monte Carlo after Prince Rainier.

 

Several weeks later, a memorial service for Safra was held in New York at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, on Central Park West at 70th Street. Again it was by invitation only, and again not everyone was asked back to the Safra apartment on Fifth Avenue, a fact that miffed several grand ladies of the city. Among the speakers at the service were Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve; James Wolfensohn, head of the World Bank; Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University; and Shimon Peres, former prime minister of Israel.

 

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And why oh why all these roadsign monuments comemmorating a past Israeli statesmen--

 

BEGIN DIVIDED HIGHWAY

 

Marty-- Pi is the dark matter of the universe.

 

           

 

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:41 | 121156 quant-this
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I don't know what's worse Spitzer or that it's the Safra ethics center. I used to work for Edmond and I find it ironic. 

I remember when Brazil devalued and Edmond stopped talking to Joseph because he didn't give him a heads up. BTW, Joseph cornered the Real options market a few days before but no one even bothered to inquire further. Ah, a real ethical bunch those Safras.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:11 | 121198 Anonymous
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what's an endowed chair cost these days? a center?

harvard is an intellectual whore. (ho)

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:42 | 121157 Mad Max
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Upcoming lectures:

Obama on keeping promises.

Pelosi on fiscal responsibility.

Ahmedinijad on tolerance.

The Nobel Prize Committee on reasoned analysis of options.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:20 | 121208 Miles Kendig
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Dick Cheney on why deficit spending does not matter as long as you have an exponential growth curve to fund your operations.

Donald Rumsfeld on how to destroy a government agency from within.

Richard Pearle on how to establish a pathway to power for the Taliban in the interests of fostering democracy.

George Mitchell on how the process of ethics should apply to those that hold the office of Attorney General.

The list could be quite long, for both sides of our sick two party political system and those that operate within it.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:33 | 121315 Reductio ad Absurdum
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The previously announced schedule of speakers was scrapped when an even better group became available.

Barack Hussein Obama will now be explaining why deficit spending does not matter even if you DON'T have a growth curve (exponential or otherwise) to back it up.

George Tenet will be speaking on the subject of destroying a government agency from within (the Safra Foundation views this speaker as a slam dunk replacement for Donald Rumsfeld).

Robert Kennedy, former Attorney General of the U.S., will explain why nepotism has no ethical place in American government.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:45 | 121322 Miles Kendig
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Two sides of the same iridium coin.  I for one hope that the whole sorry mess can be buried under another KT layer.

Chase crumbs and blame if ya want to.   You never know, you might actually catch yourself if you run fast enough and keep turning in the same direction.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:53 | 121347 Mad Max
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I'm not a Republican partisan.  My greatest disappointment in Obama (who I didn't vote for anyway) is that he has continued essentially all of the worst policies of the prior administration.

And if you know where to buy Iridium coins, let me know!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 18:35 | 121431 Miles Kendig
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I am still looking..  Would make a great item.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:51 | 121172 Blues for Dante
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I choose Business Ethics.

The American business environment has fundamentally changed following the insider trading and savings and loan scandals. Explain business ethics, and how they are applied today.

The, uh, ethics of, uh, business... can be summarised in, um, see, um, ethics are, uh, you know, the thing about ethics... AHH!

That question was not fair! That was not in the reading! I demand a new question!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:14 | 121201 Miles Kendig
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I will toss the wrench here folks.... and gladly listen to what floats back.

Remember, the same thing, with the primary response would have happened if Spitzer were prosecuted under the laws of alcohol prohibition. After all, he was just for a different prohibition. How many here would react the same way to an ethic beef with Spitzer if he were busted for smoking Marijuana?  I am sure that many of us may agree that Spitzer may well have been a fool for how he went about his business as the AGNY.  However, if shopping hookers at the Mayflower were a barrier to public service then I rather suspect that there are far more aspiring politicians in WDC (in the area of venue and yes, quality & professionalism heh) than not.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:40 | 121232 nonclaim
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What Spitzer did is expected for every major politician, lets be clear, since the beginning of time. At most he should be kicked out of his home by _his_ family and that's all as the current moral code dictates.

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:25 | 121305 Anonymous
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I am just looking for him to hook me up with some phone numbers!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 21:16 | 121628 Miles Kendig
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Why trust Spitzer's tastes?

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:22 | 121210 spekulatn
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Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:32 | 121220 LongMarch
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Ethics only become a problem when taken seriously.- The Cynics Book of Wisdom

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:42 | 121236 Rage of Odin
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Lets go to haaavard and F$#k up some smart kids!! (South Boston Accent a must)

 

Only good line from that movie and it applies here!!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:30 | 121309 delacroix
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the only way spitzer would have been violating ethics, is if lobbyists had paid for his hooker

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 18:02 | 121362 Anonymous
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Say what you will about Spitzer, but the boys on Wall Street hated him. That alone makes him an ok guy in my book.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:46 | 129198 carbonmutant
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Testing


           

 

 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 21:02 | 129216 carbonmutant
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