Word: disproportionate
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The disproportion between the two subjects is grotesque, almost a joke. To crowd Lewinsky and Rwanda into the same viewfinder is not just to discuss apples and oranges but to compare, forgive me, apples and severed heads. Each of the dramas discloses a nation in moral crisis, but as Bill...
But what can you expect from the culture that brought us Hercules? In the myth Hercules was a tragic figure: born with the strength to strangle serpents in his cradle, but with far less than the normal quotient of self-control, he kills his wife Megara and their three children...
In the words of the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, since 1967, "The Israeli government has adopted a policy of systematic and deliberate discrimination against the Palestinian population in Jerusalem in all matters relating to land expropriation, planning and building." It is this discrimination which explains why the majority...
On the other side, spirits were actually buoyant, despite the disproportion of casualties among the Palestinians. "It's not like people are gloomy and sad," observes Abu-Amr. "They are proud and happy that the Palestinians are finally standing up. It's an act of empowerment, even if it comes...
The few conservatives on the faculty at Harvard might serve as an example of the sort of diversity that Milton and Mill had in mind. They are a mere sprinkling in the dull mass of liberals, in ridiculous disproportion to their number in the general population. True diversity comes from...