Word: unjustness
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...other words, the court is fine with a nomenclature under which some marriages would be separate - but equal. In a sentence that will seem silly - and unjust - in 20 years, the court says this explicitly: ?We will not presume that a separate statutory scheme, which uses a title other than marriage, contravenes equal protection principles, so long as the rights and benefits of civil marriage are made equally available to same-sex couples.? The Plessy court couldn?t have said it better: separate railway cars for blacks are fine, as long as they are just as nice as the ones...
...elitist. Regarding final clubs, Drummey writes: “Going to and joining final clubs means to tolerate the sexism, elitism, and nepotism that they facilitate. For the socially conscious Harvard student, these are institutions not only to avoid but to expose for what they are and for the unjust practices they perpetuate.” Regarding The Harvard Crimson’s editorial board, a contributor who is anonymous on the website writes: “These opinions have swung to the Right in recent years, coming out in staunch support of discriminatory groups on campus, the occupation...
...comes packaged. Only a few world leaders have had the courage to go straight to the heart of the matter: the birth and intensity of this century's irrational militancy has less to do with the absence of democracy than with desperate anger at the stranglehold of a long, unjust Middle East policy. Although it is still a decade away, one hopes that Ferguson's prophecy of peace in the ravaged region through mass-produced fuel-cell engines comes true! Abbas Khan Islamabad...
...scowl at the notion that the books are teaching that the world is unjust. Any child who has ventured onto a playground already knows that...
...injurious effects of legacy preference while maximizing the good that comes out of it? Harvard might choose to accept fewer upper-middle-class legacies—but to continue taking children from fabulously-wealthy graduates as well as non-alumni fat cats. Upon first glance, that seems strikingly unjust. It would favor the children of multimillionaire alums over the children of ordinary-millionaire alums. (More than half of Harvard’s graduates are millionaires, according to an estimate by 02138 Magazine...