Word: unfairness
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Greece and the U.S. have lost great men to the unfair, cowardly attacks of terrorists over the past 25 years. And it is true that the police and various government officials have done little about it. But your reporter's hostile approach renders your point invalid. After all, Greece is a lot safer than the U.S. Innocent civilians are not under threat from 17 November attacks. In the U.S. one lives with a constant death threat from kids carrying deadly weapons, not to mention the country's alarming crime rates. SPYROS MICHAS Athens...
...referee at your daughter's soccer game makes a call you think is unfair...
...with our other four kids as well." He is struggling to stay out of the limelight for his son's sake. Of course, he agrees with the idea that Al Gore is Bill Clinton's "boy," pampered and propped up and corrected by Clinton, but, O.K., politics is sometimes unfair, and that's the deal...
Which is why Cheney had such an unfair advantage. Unlike him, the others hadn't been on the phone constantly with the candidate for three months, sharing confidences, offering advice and proving their worthiness. They hadn't visited Bush in the Governor's Mansion and out at Dubya's new ranch near Waco, where the two had sat on the porch, taking in the endless view of the central Texas desert. And they had never bonded, as Bush and Cheney had, over their love of the West's open spaces, their shared conservative philosophy and their experiences...
...service"--and it's not insincere, because they are glad. The Bush code is not really about power; it is about winning and achieving, doing your best, better than the other guy. For them, dynasty is a fighting word, and it's no wonder, with its embedded insult of unfair advantage. "Dynasty means something inherited," W. told TIME. "We inherited a good name, but you don't inherit a vote. You have to win a vote...