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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unauthorized youth grow up, they slowly begin to comprehend how unjust the world is for those who are born without citizenship from a privileged nation. Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, unauthorized youth sit in the same classrooms as U.S. citizens do, but they are barred from meaningful employment ,and it’s almost impossible for them to attend college. Regardless of how talented these students may be, their options are limited after they graduate. There is no viable way for unauthorized youth to secure legal immigration status. It is easier for unauthorized youth to get into Harvard than...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset | Title: The Right to Exist | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...That's one reason the U.S. occasionally finds itself threatening the right of women to control their reproductive decisions: Roe v. Wade was a court ruling, not the vote of an elected body, and so the vote of one new Supreme Court justice-a single person-could undo it. Unjust as it may seem, abortion rights in this country will always be tainted with Roe's undemocratic blemish. (See TIME's graphic "New Fronts in the Abortion Battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Equal Marriage Rights: The Vermont Breakthrough | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...decision just shunted the jihadist mentality underground. With a nod and a wink, organizations like LeT re-emerged under new names. The camps were officially closed, but training shifted to hideaways deep in the mountains, where government officials could ignore them. Recruitment continued, strengthened by the perception of unjust - and U.S.-driven - persecution of Muslims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Mumbai Terrorist | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...When Pakistanis find something unjust or unsporting, they like to say, "It's not cricket." The Lahore attacks were not cricket. Now, perhaps, someone will be moved to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Cricket Attack: A Blow to the National Psyche | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...India’s military empire in the third century B.C. He led many bloody military conquests, but afterward, he felt a deep regret for his actions, so he put up edicts, in stone, across the empire. They read, “the wars and bloodshed were wrong and unjust...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Bill Drayton ’65 | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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