Word: unjustness
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...generation is a maligned one. Conventional wisdom labels us "Generation X." "Reality Bites," Hollywood's latest portrayal of us, characterizes us young people as lazy and apathetic. Whereas the students of the sixties rose up in protest when they saw an unjust society around them, conventional wisdom says that our generation is so fed up with it all that we don't even give a damn...
...Palestinian requests, the Israeli government has in the light of this crisis permitted, and the United States agreed to, a renewed American presence in the peace negotiations. Hopefully, this will ensure that a bold and lasting and fair peace will hold in the Middle East, replacing the Knesset's unjust cordon sanitaire. But given the antinomian circumstance that Israel has established as the backdrop for these talks, it is a small wonder that Palestinians will look to Washington with something less that hope. If confidence is to be restored, the Jewish settlers on the West Bank must be held...
Something in the Core Curriculum is fundamentally wrong--wrong, as in unjust. The latest debates about the Core have confined themselves to discussions of new areas and the overall scope of courses. But the crux of the problem lies deeper within Harvard's most onerous requirement. By discouraging students from exploring many departments outside their own fields, the Core exacerbates exactly the problem it was meant to remedy...
...Mayo describes Mother Teresa as "someone who has given her life to helping people systematically oppressed by an unjust economic and political system." I strongly doubt that Mother Teresa sees her efforts in quite those terms. The moral and religious commitments which underlie her work--commitments which oblige her to oppose abortion and contraception no less than to show charity to the poor--are not, it seems, those of the majority of American liberals...
...next winner: Mother Teresa. Miss Teresa, according to her bio, has served the poor in Calcutta for more than 40 years. It's strange to think that these conservatives could muster up the courage to applaud someone who has given her life to helping people systematically oppressed by an unjust economic and political system. But the Council was apparently willing to overlook that indiscretion and praise her for being a humble, selfless, obedient woman...