The Ethics Officer Association, which began with a dozen members in 1992, has 650 today.

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The decision prompted the resignation of five officials, including USOC ethics officer Pat Rodgers.

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Edward Petry, head of the Ethics Officer Association, says the most recent issue taxing his members comes from the fad for Internet flotations.

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He sometimes urged a student to meet with the senior ethics officer at the Playhouse, a Scientologist who often recommended courses at the Celebrity Centre.

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Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the U.K.'s opposition Labour Party, said Mr. Murdoch had "no option but to go" after "shocking evidence" of alleged bribery by the Sun, revealed this week at a public inquiry into media ethics by the police officer running the three criminal probes.

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But he said he found that ethics training for senior leaders should begin earlier in an officer's career and be reinforced more frequently.

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Chief Research Officer Victoria Kamsler, a former lecturer at Princeton on environmental ethics and a clean-tech entrepreneur, runs the awards and evaluation process as a volunteer.

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Paskoff is president and chief executive officer of Atlanta-based ELI, which provides harassment, discrimination, ethics and wage and hour compliance learning solutions.

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