Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returned to Harvard determined to help expand opportunities for women and minorities here, I appreciate McDonald's values and goals. But I cannot endorse her criticism of Wilson. The charge that Wilson has failed to grasp adequately the concerns of undergraduates is as surprising as it is unjust...
WHAT would you call an agency that reserved one-fifth of the highest stations in life for people of privileged birth? You might call it archaic and aristocratic. You would probably call it unjust. You would certainly call it "un-American...
...silence of other Harvard students, especially the campus Left, is equally surprising. Perhaps Harvard students are content to let their own children benefit from an unjust policy to the detriment of others. More likely, students, faculty and administrators take legacy policy as a given, a part of Harvard tradition as unshakeable as the statue in front of University Hall...
...rules rather than political changes. In spite of sanctions and the new mood of optimism about negotiations for a new constitution, Pretoria remains essentially unyielding on the larger issue of one man, one vote. It insists that majority rule, the central demand of the African National Congress, is inherently "unjust" and would amount to black "domination" over the white minority...
...Difference Principle should have a powerful intuitive appeal for citizens of a democratic society. Since none of us can control the random factors of genetics, family background, and plain dumb luck that determine our earning power and financial resources, it seems clearly unjust to let the disadvantaged "lose" in an economic lottery which no one has any power to avoid...