Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nigerian government ignored the worldwide pleas for clemency and protests against Saro-Wiwa's unjust conviction. After the execution, the military junta dismissed the outrage expressed by South African President Nelson Mandela, President Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major...
...leaders to spare Sao-Wiwa's life, it was clearly a token gesture. As long as companies such as Shell continue to support the military junta by mining Nigerian oil, and, as long as institutions like Harvard invest in Shell, human rights abuses such as Saro-Wiwa's unjust execution will continue...
Affirmative action as a procedure is considered wrong because it unfairly rigs the admissions process and therefore produces unjust outcomes. And, because Harvard and the government department employ a procedure that is wrong, they are wrong as well. Standing alone on the Right side of this issue (publicly at least) is Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. In addition to a selective interpretation of an article co-written by Professor of Government Gary King, much of the rhetorical force of the article is provided by an interview with Mansfield. (Indeed, the term "Race-norming" is a direct quote...
...ironic and unjust that Bill Clinton stayed in a four-bedroom suite at the Waldorf-Astoria last month for the United Nations' 50th anniversary that cost America $6,000 per night, at the same time that babies in Detroit or Los Angeles were being born into poverty so great their parents do not have the means to feed them? Or is it simply the beauty of capitalism...
...death of a parent is one of the most traumatic events that can in a child's life. It is even more horrific and unjust if suicide is involved. Jonathan Marc Sherman's tragic comedy "Woman and Wallace" examines the emotional fallout resulting from such a catastrophe through the youthful and neurotic sensibility of Wallace Kirkman (Jed Silverstein), a "Jewish boy from Jersey," whom we witness grow from childhood to adulthood in just over an hour and a half...