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Many times in his parables, Jesus speaks of servants, slaves, debtors, tenants, and the poor, but he rarely actually criticized these relationships (some of which I suspect McKibben finds explorative) as being unjust, for Jesus, they are a fact of life to be used in his engaging stories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bible | 4/28/1982 | See Source »

...James Nash, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, directly followed King, calling capital punishment "unnecessary,, unjust and intolerable," Asked whether voters should be allowed to decide, be added, "We do not concede the right to the state to take life...

Author: By Jacob M. Schelesinger, | Title: King Testifies in Favor of Capital Punishment Legislations | 3/23/1982 | See Source »

HALABI CRITICIZES the government's strategy on three counts, First it is too often cruel and unjust. Second, it has made Israel into a repressive occupying power, and this new identity has damaged the moral framework of Israeli society, Finally, Israeli's policy has worked against its own greatest interest, the establishment of peace...

Author: By Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, | Title: West Bank Report | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Later, Haldeman was accused of isolating Nixon. This was unjust. Nixon's isolation was self-imposed. He dreaded meeting strangers. He was unable to give direct orders to those who disagreed with him. The vaunted Haldeman procedures were an effort to compensate for these weaknesses. If Haldeman was eventually destroyed because he carried out the President's wishes too literally, it is also my impression that many instructions given in the heat of emotion never went further than the yellow pads where Haldeman dutifully noted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: NIXON'S GERMANS | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...hours outside ruined banks in the hope of salvaging at least part of their savings. In 1932 a terrifying 1,456 banks collapsed. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 provided a federal guarantee of all deposits under $5,000. The American Bankers Association denounced the bill as "unsound, unscientific, unjust and dangerous," and even Roosevelt had his doubts, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cost little and soon cut bank failures by more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R.'s Disputed Legacy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

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