Word: unfairness
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...holds up a new skateboard to show his mother. When she asks who gave it to him, he replies, "You and Daddy did." Guilt spreads like a shadow across Guerin's face as the consequences hit home. For some, the scene is one step too far. "That was so unfair," says Prendiville. "It just wasn't true. She was totally immersed in Cathal." He remembers how desperately Guerin had wanted another child, and how her fight with cancer made it impossible - something you would never know from watching the movie. And then there's the end. When the film...
...Maybe that's an unfair question, for nobody expects a nation's foreign policy to be neatly consistent. But the fact that it can be asked at all illustrates the dangers that await any Administration that strays from the national interest as the lodestar of its policy. The point, as Mandelbaum says, is "not that social work is a bad thing." On the contrary, it can be positively noble in intent and execution. Are we really to say that it was a mistake for the U.S. to intervene in Bosnia and Kosovo (where there was about as much...
...older brother James, who tended to be quite tough as a master. "I fancy his harsh and tyrannical treatment of me," Franklin later speculated, had the effect of "impressing me with that aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me through my whole life." That was a bit unfair to poor James, whose newspaper in Boston was the first feisty and independent publication in the colonies and who taught young Benjamin how to be cheeky about establishment authority...
...months now, many educators have feared the worst. They glumly figured that the Supreme Court would find that the University of Michigan's admission policy unfairly counted race as a factor. But that wasn't the case. The courts ruled in a split verdict that the undergraduate admissions policy was indeed unfair because it was too narrowly defined, but that the law school's affirmative action practice was constitutional...
...would be unfair to compare 88's The Dogs of Babel (Little, Brown; 264 pages) to The Lovely Bones--but it is tempting. Both are by women, both first-time novelists, both from the same publisher. The Dogs of Babel arrives almost exactly a year after The Lovely Bones and with some of the same buzz--both scored Anna Quindlen's coveted endorsement, for example. But while The Dogs of Babel has many of the virtues of its predecessor and will no doubt please many of the same readers, it won't please them quite as much...