Word: unfairness
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...TIME, Michael Schmid said Bill Gates has the right to protect his ideas from the competition [LETTERS, June 5]. Gates' genius, in fact, was for imitating the Macintosh operating system and its user-friendly elements, which were then introduced in the Windows operating system. Considering this, it isn't unfair for Gates to have to give away some of his ideas. Mac users would say it is simple poetic justice. LUCA TIFI Ancona, Italy
John's father said, "Life is unfair." There's an essay question: Has life been unfair to the Kennedys? Discuss. (Give due attention to both sides of the question). Was life unfair to John...
...Zagat, the restaurant-guide magnates, who served as tasting judges on the Flay show (joined by Donna Hanover and a randomly selected audience member). The pregame show also features Iron Chef's interview with TIME, in which Morimoto, who cooks at Manhattan's Nobu, kept talking about how unfair it would be if the theme ingredient turned out to be guacamole or salsa. "Not that I can't do it," he insisted without any irony. "If he says Mexican, I feel confident I could create something interesting." Maybe Flay is right about their not getting...
...Fair and Unfair Trade...
Back in the States, the ratings irony was delicious. CBS, which attracts relatively few 18-to-49s, has long decried advertisers' focus on demographics rather than overall viewers. Unfair! Ageist! Fifty-year-olds buy stuff too! Then CBS merged with MTV's parent, Viacom, and started courting youth (MTV heavily plugged Survivor). Against Survivor, Millionaire drew more viewers. But CBS, which won the 18-to-34 and 18-to-49 viewers dramatically (by 1.5 and 1.4 million, respectively), claimed victory...