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...comes packaged. Only a few world leaders have had the courage to go straight to the heart of the matter: the birth and intensity of this century's irrational militancy has less to do with the absence of democracy than with desperate anger at the stranglehold of a long, unjust Middle East policy. Although it is still a decade away, one hopes that Ferguson's prophecy of peace in the ravaged region through mass-produced fuel-cell engines comes true! Abbas Khan Islamabad...
...scowl at the notion that the books are teaching that the world is unjust. Any child who has ventured onto a playground already knows that...
...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...
...injurious effects of legacy preference while maximizing the good that comes out of it? Harvard might choose to accept fewer upper-middle-class legacies—but to continue taking children from fabulously-wealthy graduates as well as non-alumni fat cats. Upon first glance, that seems strikingly unjust. It would favor the children of multimillionaire alums over the children of ordinary-millionaire alums. (More than half of Harvard’s graduates are millionaires, according to an estimate by 02138 Magazine...
...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...