Word: unfairly
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Perhaps we're being unfair. In order to give the admissions office a chance to prove its good faith on openness and to settle the question of whether athletes are treated differently from those applicants who excel at editing the paper or playing the French horn, we call upon the admissions office to release the aggregate applicant statistics of the men's hockey team, the football team, the field hockey team, the Crimson executive board and the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra. Let's settle this little factual dispute once...
Administration officials insist that any impression of confusion or vacillation is unfair. Since the crisis began in early August, the President has been consistent about his bottom line. Says one White House official: "We thought our message was simple enough, that we'd like Saddam to withdraw peacefully but that we will kick him out if he doesn't. But we've learned that that's too complicated for most reporters to understand...
That, in turn, is unfair: there are real reasons for confusion. If the President has been clear about his fundamental goal, his shifting messages about how to achieve it have bewildered many. Yet ambiguity is an essential part of diplomacy in managing a crisis this complex. Especially when dealing with an adversary like Saddam, whose future intentions are hidden, and with allies whose own interests are so different, the U.S. needs to keep a variety of signals afloat. Part of the message must sound unavoidably paradoxical: the best hope of avoiding war is to scare Saddam by making a credible...
...that Harvard administrators reminded me of Mr. Rogers because they are generally "older white men who treat the young people they work with like infants." I regret this statement because it was misquoted, because it allowed people to divert attention from real issues, but mainly because the generalization is unfair...
However, Russell, who had backed the non-binding order, said that such a ban on animal experimentation might place an unfair burden on Cambridge's large medical community...