Word: unjust
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...thought that I could perform it well, and that it was important it be well performed. To accept, I realized with a certain sense of loss, would be to go back to an old life that I knew was filled with difficulty and misunderstanding and implacable (and often unjust) judgment of character and performance. I had served six Presidents. I had seen one of them fall in dreadful disgrace, but I had seen Presidents, including Richard Nixon, rise in triumph also. I had seen war as it was made in high places and as it was fought on the battlefield...
Kurzman also refers to the immorality of Israel's ties to South Africa I too believe that Israel should not have ties with South Africa. Being isolated does not really justify it. However to single out Israel for its ties is grossly unjust. Israel's dealings with South Africa are mini man compared to those of many other countries. Kurzman is once again guilty of over simplification...
...would suffice. Dreyfuss doesn't need literally to cast his manuscripts out to sea and let them blow in the wind to convince us that he is through with writing, just as Sarandon doesn't need to climb into bed with her son to convince us the world is unjust...
...political patronage system. Each example belies the notion that affirmative action tampers with cherished, purely "meritocratic" ideals. At Harvard, students and admissions officers have openly admitted that it helps one's admissions chances to be the child of an alumnus. But none of this is considered dangerous, or unjust. Affirmative action, which is based on the principle of redress, gets singled out for a special, vicious attack...
...account the right of others to security instead of being content to assert their own, and that they modify their methods in places where the evolution of society and men's aspirations so require, as in Poland. With our historical links to Eastern Europe and sensitivity to the unjust division of our continent, we Europeans hope that the Soviet Union will gradually find a way to accept self-determination and observance of basic human rights in the area it controls...