Word: deservingness
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We are right, then, to fear North Korea, a country so far removed from us that it does not know, or seem to care about, the assumptions of the world. Yet Cuba, whose destiny has been entwined with ours for almost a century, is deserving of our respect and our...
Rodriguez grudgingly supports the Clinton Administration policy of detaining Cuban refugees at Guantanamo, on the ground that they should not be granted privileges denied to Haitians. But he fails to see why deserving members of both groups should not be allowed to follow in his own successful wake. "I've...
The most pernicious feature of the recent welfare debate, though, from a feminine point of view, has to be the thriving new rhetoric of "illegitimacy." Until a few months ago, the term illegitimate, when applied to a human child, had more or less fallen from use and been replaced by...
Is that the kind of thing advocates of the death penalty have in mind when they say that some crimes are deserving of the ultimate sanction? Undoubtedly yes. Would society be able to impose it on O.J. Simpson? Undoubtedly no.
The rules are simple in theory: anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution is entitled to political asylum in the U.S. Someone who is desperate to find a job and feed a family is not. Until now, Bill Clinton has avoided trying to tell them apart and simply repatriated...