Word: unfairly
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...speech of thanks on being awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1995, he acknowledged, "I am well aware that I have been described ... as enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding." Yet colleagues say his reputation as the angry old man of British theater is unfair, even if he did turn down a knighthood from Prime Minister John Major saying, "I would not accept such recognition from a Conservative government." "He's passionate, with a very short fuse," says Hall, "but he's also extremely warm and kind." Ian Holm recalls starring in Moonlight in 1993. The night...
...That nature should punish a country that tries so hard to serve it seems deeply unfair. But in 1998, El NiNo warmed the seas, bleaching and killing much of the fantastical underwater coral. Fears surfaced that the rainbows of multicolored reef fish and legions of turtles, sharks and manta rays that made the Maldives a high point of the diving world would depart for richer shores. In the end, the fish stayed and the coral is now growing back. But global climate changes remain a concern. The Maldives stretch 800 km, but less than 300 sq km is land...
...There doesn't seem to be much doubt among Peruvians that Lori Berenson was clearly hooked up with the MRTA (the leftist Tupac Amaru guerrilla group). So for Peruvians the issue of unfairness (unless you assume there's something basically unfair in the court system) is moderated by the fact that she got a second trial and she got an enormous amount of attention, which most Peruvians don't get under similar circumstances...
...There may be sympathy, but it doesn't seem to be widespread. And in a country that's known a lot of deaths and injuries and unfair imprisonment, she seemed like somebody who in that context had been treated rather better than many Peruvians...
...legal lynching, and this is a country where there is experience with that. They know what that looks like, and it didn't strike them as one of those. This is all happening in an era in which people are very aware of international standards and the possibility of unfair treatment. Human Rights Watch's American division has not singled out her case, and the Peruvian human rights group has not taken up her cause...