Under Mr. Wolfowitz, the staff of the bank's department of institutional integrity will grow to 65 from 53.

Clearly, none of this would be necessary if there were a modicum of institutional integrity.

But the lack of institutional integrity reflects a society reeling from corporate scandals and fraud cases involving dishonest disclosures and other ethical issues.

"It's a question of institutional integrity," Mr. Vallone said just before the vote.

The Medical Institute is known for maintaining the very highest standards of academic honesty and institutional integrity.

Yet something essential is being sold off, an institutional integrity, if you will.

But for the sake of its own institutional integrity, Congress should immediately move to prevent its members from controlling huge stashes of secret political money.

But money is as much a part of the reform movement as is a desire to maintain academic or institutional integrity.

There being political forces on both sides, principles of institutional integrity would seem to counsel deciding the case on the merits.

But the part-time revolution has scarcely touched the elite schools, which argue that tenure is needed to attract the best candidates and to maintain institutional integrity.