Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...living wage is that it fundamentally misinterprets the proper role of universities, which is to promote learning and increase knowledge. Harvard does not exist to be an agent for social change, and it never has. While it is appropriate for students to question University policies that are obviously unjust, Harvard’s present wage structure does not fall into that category. Assuming that Harvard meets the requirements of legality and basic fairness, the administration’s highest priority should be to advance the academic ends for which Harvard was created...
...classmates with silliness. This attitude betrays a lack of intellectual engagement with the discourse of protest and institutional change. This behavior is unbecoming of a Harvard student. A decision not to support PSLM on intellectual or moral grounds is noble; a dismissal of their actions is both ignoble and unjust. It smacks of the same disgusting arrogance with which the University treats students involved in the presidential search to the living wage campaign. We can do better than to treat each other that...
...Americans, our opinions must be based on what we know, and what we know comes from the papers. Both overt and subtle editorializing, prioritizing and slanted reporting are unjust to the people and the situation being described, and to the reader. But while we must all demand even-handed reporting by the media, we must understand, as some do not, that questions of media bias are rarely one-sided, simple and black-and-white...
...song, it depicts a battered wife who tears around town bashing into people's cars, robbing men at ATMs and shooting policemen with water guns, before deliberately crashing into a pole to kill herself. Not only is MTV running scared, but they are coming across as incredibly unjust. After all, it is a strange double standard when Eminem can rap about decapitating his wife or stabbing someone in the head if they are a "fag or a lez," no? MTV's cowardly ban on the video proves Madonna's point: The batterer gets to vent, but a girl who fights...
...Some animal behaviorists believe that a character like Fred is motivated only by the hope of the next snack. This is unjust. When I return home, particularly after an absence of more than a day, Fred levitates with chaotic excitement and happiness. He springs into the air on all four legs at once, his tail thrashing, his body performing twists like a high-diver's - an astonishing sight, a mid-air electricity of vibrating honey-colored fur. When he comes to earth, he trombones his neck and howls out a conversational WOOO-WOOOO-WOOOO! There is no cynical quid...