Word: unjust
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...magnate. When Anne Chandler Bass graduated in 2000, her father donated $7 million to Harvard—a gift that now pays the salary of Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. (The delicious irony—which goes unmentioned by Golden—is that this apparently-unjust admissions break is the source of the funding that facilitates Sandel’s wildly-popular course “Justice...
...uncertain as to whether withdrawals of money that was donated before July are also subject to the new tax, because McLoughlin’s announcement did not distinguish between old and new donations. If pre-July donations are taxed at the new rate, it would be a patently unjust and illegitimate retroactive tax. Pre-July donors contributed with the expectation that all of their money would be going into their intended recipient’s treasury, not the University’s coffers.We are not suggesting that the University is necessarily wrong to impose this new tax. It is conceivable...
Still, abandoning Idiocracy seems particularly unjust, since Judge has made a lot of money for Fox. Plus, Idiocracy isn't a bad movie: a lot of the reviews are actually positive. The idea is an extension of Judge's previous work mocking the dumbing down of society: perfectly average Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph are frozen until 2505 and awaken to a world so degraded by mass consumerism that they are now the smartest people in the world. Crops are dying because they're being irrigated with an electrolyte-filled sports drink that has "the taste plants crave." Costco takes...
...clip, from a Veterans for Peace convention held last weekend in Seattle, Watada explained that he is trying to put forward a "radical idea" first born during the Vietnam War. "The idea is this," he said. "That to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers and service members can choose to stop fighting...
...Dark Ages. The referee's decision may seem final, but it is fatally flawed. Football is a great sport, but the professional matches are a disappointment, since the best actors and the luckiest thugs win millions while the likes of Zidane are punished, condemning their teams to unjust defeat. David John Wood Chikushino, Japan