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Anticipating that a conservative court would at the very least find Taxman's dismissal unjust, defenders of affirmative action implored the justices to confine their judgment to the case at hand. In essence, trying to cut their losses, many liberals urged the court to strike down affirmative action as it affected Taxman and Williams but to withhold judgment on racial preferences as a whole. As time passed, civil rights groups grew increasingly uneasy. In November, a coalition of such groups agreed to finance a settlement, effectively making the case and its constitutional dilemmas disappear for the time being...
Zobel, who among Superior Court judges has one of the higher rates of overturning jury verdicts, also stressed that it was within his duties as a judge to overturn a conviction that seemed unjust...
Even more unjust is to say that the lead performance "spoiled" anything other than Mandel's unyielding notions of what Macbeth should be. In fact, what she takes such issue with in Colapinto's performance as "petulant muttering," his casual attitude as if "enjoying a private joke," fit rather well with the chosen interpretation; to say that his performance "prevents the production from generating fear and explosive emotion which the play is intended to evoke" is to say that there is a right or wrong way to perform it, which has no strong basis in the idea of interpretation itself...
However, protesters say that the political situation in China is still unjust...
...think it's always disruptive if you have to move," Whinston says. "I think it's harder in a circumstance like this, when you feel you're moving because of such a poor and unjust decision...