Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maketh his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."--Matthew...
Like many Harvard students, Barrett opposed the Vietnam war. As a sophomore he was one of almost 400 students who signed a Crimson advertisement proclaiming that "Our war in Vietnam is unjust and immoral... As long as the United States is involved in this war I will not serve in the armed forces...
...didn't speak about the human rights activists who were in the camp, but about Maria Semyonova. This woman, a member of the True Orthodox Church, had spent almost her entire life in camps. I referred to her "tragic fate." While I was not speaking of just or unjust sentencing or anything else about the verdicts, I did use the word tragic. This was said to be a "slander" because Semyonova had been correctly sentenced...
...tutor. It would allow students to present and question witnesses. It would make its proceedings open to the public when student-defendants request it, in order to mediate between the undergraduate's privacy concerns and the community interest of an open proceeding. It would not make a bogus and unjust distinction in punishment for small-time computer hackers and antiapartheid demonstrators. It would include not just an insular cabal of Harvard bureaucrats but professors and possibly graduate students as well, to give it the balance, compassion, fairness and wisdom it now manifestly lacks...
...central France. He became an altar boy, and the priest thought he had "a religious nature," but his foster mother caught him stealing from her purse. "You little thief!" she cried. Genet took that as his creed: "I answered 'Yes' to every accusation made against me, no matter how unjust . . .Yes, I had to become whatever they said I was . . . I was a coward, thief, traitor, queer, whatever they...