I probably have seen the movie Fiddler on the Roof half a dozentimes. Along with Guys and Dolls, that great Damon Runyan taleabout Nathan Detroit and the Boys, it is one of my favoritemusicals. It is not the song “Sunrise, Sunset” that I like,however, it is the opening theme that repeats throughout the play,where Tevya cries out, “Tradition! Tradition!”

A wonderful thing is tradition. In December, we tend to think alot about traditions.

This past spring, your resident image-smasher again had anopportunity to conduct an eight-week seminar at Emory University,called 21st Century Ethics. Ethics in the 21st century are nodifferent than ethics in any other century. It often boils down todetermining the most responsible option from among severalavailable options, generally the one that will do the least harm.Everyone has his own definition, of course.

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