Word: musts
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Rawls contends that faced with this situation, people would build their society around two principles. Most important, everyone should enjoy all liberties compatible with ensuring the same liberties for everyone else. The second guiding principle dictates that social and economic inequalities must satisfy two conditions: they must be attached to positions and offices open to all citizens under conditions of equality of opportunity and, second, they should work to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society...
Section leaders encourage students to object to Rawls' scheme on the grounds that it unwisely compromises efficiency for the sake of equity. It is true that a Rawlsian society does focus on the least well-off and contends that income differentials must be justified. But all the Difference Principle asks is that the inequalities in society be harnessed to provide some benefit to the poor. Rawls' "Justice as Fairness" is not about levelling equality. A more truly Rawlsian policy might be adjusting marginal tax rates on high incomes and channeling the revenue to the less well...
German unification is inevitable but must occur at a measured pace, panelists told about 300 people at an Institute of Politics forum last night...
Students who receive probation from the Administrative Board no longer must petition to remain active in extracurricular activities, members of the Board said this week...
...Unless you [minority and female students] go on to graduate school, we will never solve this problem," said Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson. Patterson said department heads at Harvard seeking minority faculty must now "raid" other universities...