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...recent public statements, experts both inside and outside Brazil remain less than convinced that the country is finally out of the Bomb business. The Collor government still refuses to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty -- "an unjust instrument" because it does not apply to acknowledged nuclear powers, the Foreign Ministry says. There are also doubts about whether the government controls the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Two Tales of Skulduggery | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...legacy policy is unjust as the editors contend, then the primary issue is elitism, not the differential impact on minorities. Unless legacy tips are racially biased, they will eventually also work in favor of children of minority alumni. Considering the experiences of Jewish students, there is no reason to believe that a previously oppressed group will be discriminated against by legacy policy. Over time, then, it does not discriminate racially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legacy Admissions Are Not Just a Minority Issue | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Starr believes that all laws, no matter how minor, should be enforced, he says. "I'm not a neoconservative jerk," he adds, conceding that some laws may be unjust...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

WITH over $25 million in ticket sales and countless jobs on the line, last summer's Miss Saigon controversy has forced actors, directors and audiences to rethink their ideas of just and unjust, plausible and implausible. The basic question: Who gets what role...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Rewriting the Script | 10/4/1990 | See Source »

That afternoon Roemer had read aloud a favorite passage from novelist John Fowles' book The Aristos: "In the whole, nothing is unjust. It may, to this or that individual, be unfortunate." So, in a sense, is capital punishment for both the condemned man and the Governor, who waited for word from Angola Prison that Dalton Prejean had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Life in His Hands; Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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