Word: unfair
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...kidding. At a meeting in Paris earlier this year, a man told Royal she looked good. "You're not too bad yourself," she retorted. Her arsenal includes the occasional girlish giggle, a disarming smile and a sartorial penchant for pure white. To her opponents in the party, those are unfair tactics, ones that mask an ideological emptiness that will show up sooner or later. "Technique doesn't replace politics; there have to be ideas, convictions, a discussion of the stakes," said Lionel Jospin, who, you might have thought, would have had the decency to stay silent: Jospin was so disastrous...
...elected officials to be intelligent about how we make our country safe. Whether that has to do with inner-city crime or that has to do with keeping terrorists from getting inside this country, the reality is that you need to multitask and be smart. It's not an unfair assumption to make that my elected officials should be able to do that. That's why they are there...
...incoming freshman at Columbia University, I felt that your portrayal of the Ivy League and its students was more than a bit unfair. Yes, students should look beyond the names of colleges, and parents shouldn't push their children to consider only name-brand schools. But students who decide after careful consideration that an Ivy League institution is the one for them shouldn't be seen simply as superficial élitists. Each of the eight Ivy League schools has a unique academic and social culture, as does every college. By practically applauding students who turned down the Ivies and omitting...
...think the coverage of the trivial is what is most unfair," says MacManus. "Everybody has some quirky tale to tell about...
...before a judge, prosecutors don't bother to prepare thoroughly, and the result is often acquittal. Another possibility is that judges so resented the federal sentencing guidelines, which replaced judicial discretion with strict and frequently harsh rules, that they demanded stronger proof of guilt when the prescribed sentence seemed unfair. Leipold leans to this explanation because judges started to acquit even more often at about the time the guidelines went into effect...