Word: unjustness
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Legal experts who believe the death penalty in the U.S. is applied in an unjust and arbitrary fashion are further alarmed by this latest ruling. "When you cut back on procedural grounds, you're talking about preventing discussion of disputes that may shine a light on various areas of the criminal-justice system that are going awry," says Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School. "Who's going to shine a light on the way the system works other than the people enmeshed in it?" Gerald Chaleff, one of Southern California's top criminal-defense attorneys, warns, "You judge...
...call to action 12 years ago, when she learned that a mining company had obtained exploration rights from the government for the forest lands on her family's sheep ranch on the North Island's rugged Coromandel peninsula and was about to excavate. "I thought this was outrageous and unjust," recalls Wallace, now 39 and a lecturer in resource economics at Victoria University in Wellington. "I began to protest strongly not only about people marching onto private property but possibly destroying it as well...
...miles, set aside a portion of oil revenues to pay claims arising from its invasion of Kuwait, and swear to respect its 1963 border with that country. On Saturday, Baghdad formally accepted in a 23-page letter to the U.N. that also complained the resolution was harsh and unjust. But, said Saadi Mahdi Saleh, speaker of Iraq's parliament, "we have no alternative but to accept." A U.N. observer force will move into the border areas, allowing the U.S. and allied troops occupying southern Iraq to head home. The Saddam regime, if it survives at all, will be too weakened...
University policy should, and indeed does, encourage students to respect each others' feelings, but an overprotective Mother Harvard would be unjust and counterproductive. We said last week that even Brown University's recent decision to expel a student for screaming racial and ethnic slurs constituted an unacceptable restriction on free expression. For Harvard to pull down offensive symbols would be truly totalitarian...
...antiwar movement truly believes that the Gulf War is simply another Vietnam--an unjust, or even unwise, conflict whose costs greatly exceed its benefits--then the way to prove it to policymakers is to send rich white boys to die in the Gulf alongside other, less privileged citizens...