Word: unjust
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...more than slightly disingenuous to suggest that colleges and universities account for all, or even most, of the digital piracy of music. It is a problem that occurs at every level of society and in every contingent of the listening community. Berman’s rhetoric represents the unjust application of the law to a small fraction of the population, and a shot at a target of some great convenience. To its credit, Harvard has maintained an admirable policy with regards to music-sharing networks. Although it complies with RIAA legal requests, Harvard does not actively police its network...
...diplomatic support and persaude the U.S. to change its position. The text of the platform thanks Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the E.U. for its support - Syria as well - and hopes for better relations with China, Japan, and Russia. (It also "calls on the United States administration to reconsider its unjust positions towards the Palestinian cause.") In response, Regev, the Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, asks the international community "to stand steadfastly on its principles," not to waver or be taken in by what Israel sees as false promises and half-measures...
...Thich Nhat Hanh's followers say he has also has had to contend with communist obstruction. Originally, the Grand Requiem ceremonies were to be billed in Vietnamese as the "Grand Requiem for Praying Equally for All to Untie the Knots of Unjust Suffering." But Vietnamese officials objected, saying it was improper to "equally" pray for soldiers in the U.S.-backed South Vietnam army, not to mention American soldiers. "The spirit of the Vietnamese people doesn't agree with the idea of praying for foreign imperialists coming to kill millions of Vietnamese," says Bui Huu Duoc, director of the government...
...perpetuates negative black stereotypes. But it’s not real life, and most people realize this. Besides, we do have a way to make the stuff we don’t like go away. In the same way a frustrated Congress has the power to alter an unjust war by adjusting the President’s funds, we as consumers can make hip-hop whatever we want it to be. If we don’t buy it, the artists won’t make it. It’s that simple...
...President Bush’s policy on homosexuality, Mailer’s narrator reveals that he “took a hand in the jury’s deliberations” at the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde. But rather than condemning Wilde’s unjust imprisonment, the result of Mailer’s comment is to excuse it—turning an act of persecution and intolerance into an unavoidable supernatural intervention into human affairs. The novel does contain some wonderfully rendered scenes near the end, as when Adolf reacts to the burning of his father?...