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Ethicist

NPR | By Randy Cohen,
Jacki Lyden
Published February 9, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

All Things Considered Ethicist Randy Cohen stops by to tell host Jacki Lyden about one of the precepts of ethics -- utilitarianism. And we have advice for a listener: Is a teacher ethically obligated to read the evaluations his students write about him?

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Randy Cohen
Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.
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Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden's voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.
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