April 2008

2008 Olympics Controversy Highlights Debate on Olympic Goals

The bright orange flames of the Olympic Games. Usually, this iconic sporting symbol brings joy and excitement everywhere it goes as the torch proceeds through countries throughout the world, from hand to hand, building anticipation for the Games. But this year, the burning torch has been met with both pride and protest.
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Who We Are

Virtue in Action is created by Current Links in Education, a non profit, non partisan 501 (c) 3 organization whose mission is to foster virtues and civics in the youth of America.

Dennis Cortes, Co-founder and editor, also Managing Director of CF Managed Assets at Cantor Fitzgerald

Kris Cortes, Co-founder and Executive Director, former investment broker at Dain Bosworth

Advisory Board

Ken Fisher, Founder and Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Center for Character Development

Dr. Matthew L. Davidson, Ph.D, President and Director of the Institute for Excellence and Ethics.

Dr. Thomas Lickona, developmental psychologist and Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Cortland, and director of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (Respect and Responsibility).

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought-by-thought, action-by-action."

- Helen Gahagan Douglas
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