Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Something in the Core Curriculum is fundamentally wrong--wrong, as in unjust. The latest debates about the Core have confined themselves to discussions of new areas and the overall scope of courses. But the crux of the problem lies deeper within Harvard's most onerous requirement. By discouraging students from exploring many departments outside their own fields, the Core exacerbates exactly the problem it was meant to remedy...
...Mayo describes Mother Teresa as "someone who has given her life to helping people systematically oppressed by an unjust economic and political system." I strongly doubt that Mother Teresa sees her efforts in quite those terms. The moral and religious commitments which underlie her work--commitments which oblige her to oppose abortion and contraception no less than to show charity to the poor--are not, it seems, those of the majority of American liberals...
...next winner: Mother Teresa. Miss Teresa, according to her bio, has served the poor in Calcutta for more than 40 years. It's strange to think that these conservatives could muster up the courage to applaud someone who has given her life to helping people systematically oppressed by an unjust economic and political system. But the Council was apparently willing to overlook that indiscretion and praise her for being a humble, selfless, obedient woman...
...there is question whether the Pentagon's new policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" will be able to withstand constitutional scrutiny. "America's hallmark has been to judge people by what they do, and not by who they are," wrote Chief Judge Abner Mikva. "It is fundamentally unjust to abort a most promising military career solely because of a truthful confession of a sexual preference different from that of a majority, a preference untarnished by even a scintilla of misconduct...
...this bill, despite its noble intentions to protect women, contains critical drawbacks which make it both unconstitutional and unjust. It singles out anti-abortion protesters for harsher punishments than any other protesters, violating their rights to equal protection under the law. This discrimination against the protesters smacks of censorship...