Word: unfairness
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Last week, the board wrapped up a moderate proposal—including a 45’ cap on the Mahoney’s site, with provisions for bargaining—which both Harvard and the neighborhood have decried as unfair...
...Yale and Harvard Business School because their blood wasn't as blue as Bush's, and other somebodies didn't get a chance to own the Texas Rangers or to use the capital Bush borrowed to buy his share of the team because these somebodies were nobodies. Life is unfair. A legitimate criticism of affirmative action is that it politicizes life chances and focuses blame on race. If you get turned down by Yale to make room for a George W., you're not even aware of it. But if you get turned down by the University of Michigan...
...crosscut with scenes of his rivals being rubbed out. The Sopranos uses Mob cliches too, but it overlays them with a suburban family drama; Kingpin does nothing to improve on its Mob-movie forebears, nor does it have the subtlety or layers of The Sopranos. (These might be unfair comparisons if Kingpin didn't so showily invite them.) In typical network style, Kingpin's characters let you know precisely what they're thinking, either in workmanlike soap speak or the florid language of banditos from a late-night western ("I have seen the flames of hell! I have swam through...
...expectations.” The University of Michigan’s race-based admissions policy offers a clear example of what Bush was referring to. A point system that automatically starts black, Hispanic and Native American applicants 20 points ahead of all others is not only grossly unfair and illogical; it fosters pernicious racial stereotypes...
FRANCE Face-Off A truce broke down in the Ivory Coast as government and rebels met in Paris. Rebel leaders want President Laurent Gbagbo to quit, claiming his 2002 election was unfair and insisting new elections are necessary. But Gbagbo said the constitution does not allow him to call early legislative elections and said the rebels should disarm...