Word: unjustness
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Peninsula's most recent issue dealing with homosexuality has generated numerous responses and reactions. While I find the great majority of these criticisms to be unjust, I wish to reply to only one--that of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes...
...Incest and rape are both hideous crimes, and we can never make light of the trauma that a woman has undergone when she has been violated in this way. However, an abortion will not undo rape or incest. And furthermore it is unjust to kill an innocent child for the crime of its father...
UNIONS WARM many a Harvard student's heart. Mention "union" and an image of the worker getting just desserts rises up. Non-union labor? Scabs! Ignorant slobs who are unwittingly perpetuating the unjust power of exploitative capitalists...
NORMAL is currently attempting to chip away at strict--and, the organization contends, unjust--marijuana laws through a suit against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that would force the agency to reclassify the drug. Marijuana is now a Schedule I drug, like heroine, meaning it cannot be used medically except in special circumstances because of its supposed dangerous side effects. NORMAL wants it switched to Schedule II, which covers substances with potential for abuse but acknowledged medicinal value...
...unification," says Werner Hubner, a former major general in the National People's Army. He worries about making ends meet because of a new law that will rule out higher pensions for those who, like Hubner, had special status under the old regime. "This is unjust," he says bitterly. "Since I paid in higher than average contributions, I feel robbed of my life's savings." Not that Hubner can be accused of living in splendor. "I live on the fourth floor in a three-room apartment with oven heating. I carry the coal up myself...