title: Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society, Expanded
author: Lisa Newton
description: Lisa H. Newton is a professor of philosophy and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Fairfield University.
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  Two Women
  
  Brian Freemantle
  
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  > > To Charlotte, who said it was her turn.
  
  > > > > With love.
  
  We will use the full weight of the law to expose and root out corruption …
  When abuses like this begin to surface in the corporate world, it is time to
  reaffirm the basic values that make capitalism work. There can be no
  capitalism without conscience, no wealth without character.
  
  > > > > >  _US President George W. Bush, demanding ‘new ethics of personal
  > responsibility’ from American business leaders after a series of Wall Street
  > scandals. 10 July, 2002_
  
  One
  
  Alice said: ‘It’s all right.’
  
  ‘It’s not. I love you.’
  
  ‘We don’t have to _make_ love every time to prove we’re _in_ love. That just
  makes it screwing. Ugly.’
  
  John Carver turned away, his back to her.
  
  She said: ‘It’s not just this, is it?’
  
  ‘This didn’t help.’
  
  ‘Do you want to talk about it?’
  
  ‘It’s business. Boring.’
  
  ‘Business’s never boring.’ Alice Belling had graduated f