Word: unjustness
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...15th century until 1641 and exercised wide jurisdiction under rules suited to the purposes of absolutist sovereigns. This court met in secret without a jury, used torture to force confessions and handed down severe judgments. Dictionaries define a star chamber as any tribunal or investigating body that is similarly unjust and inquisitorial. If the star chamber was abolished in 1641, how come it is sitting in Washington today? BONNIE E. SELMER Cornell...
...conditions of the Solomon Amendment are fundamentally unjust. The measure denies certain federal grants to any school that prohibits or prevents "the Secretary of Defense from obtaining, for military purposes, entry to campuses, access to students on campuses, access to directory information on students, or that has an anti-ROTC policy." HLS would lose funds primarily from its federal work-study programs and Perkins loans grants...
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...