Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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IRAQ "Let Clinton and his entourage drown in the scandal. And let us pursue the path of the great jihad for the complete lifting of the unjust sanctions." --Editorial, Al-Qadissiya...
This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...
...trial, however, and of its dual outrages--one over too harsh a decision, one over too lenient a one. At issue was justice, or rather injustice, and these days there is nothing like injustice to bring people to their knees or to their feet. People read of so many unjust rewards and unjust punishments--canned ceos walking off with tens of millions while "downsized" employees merely walk off--that they may be on an unconscious search for signs of cosmic fairness...
Anticipating that a conservative court would at the very least find Taxman's dismissal unjust, defenders of affirmative action implored the justices to confine their judgment to the case at hand. In essence, trying to cut their losses, many liberals urged the court to strike down affirmative action as it affected Taxman and Williams but to withhold judgment on racial preferences as a whole. As time passed, civil rights groups grew increasingly uneasy. In November, a coalition of such groups agreed to finance a settlement, effectively making the case and its constitutional dilemmas disappear for the time being...
Zobel, who among Superior Court judges has one of the higher rates of overturning jury verdicts, also stressed that it was within his duties as a judge to overturn a conviction that seemed unjust...