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Could you imagine arriving at a museum and seeing one of your loved ones who passed away on display for others’  amusement? The Body Worlds exhibitions are the world’s most popular touring attraction, having been visited by more than 32 million people. Another exhibit opened in 2005 and there have been serious allegations that the […]

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Almost 75 years after he died on an ocean voyage, a South African philanthropist and humanitarian was honored last week in Johannesburg. A plaque in the memory of Isaac Ochberg was dedicated on the site of an orphanage where the Ukraine native helped find refuge for some 200 young Jews who lost their parents in […]

Plato, in “The Republic,” famously asked, “What distinguishes a leader?” No easy answer to that one. Indeed, philosophers, historians, political scientists, religious thinkers, have long quested those traits that characterize leadership. Is it, in fact, the singular trait of the leader that makes leadership? Or are societal and other situational dynamics more important in shaping […]

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