Chancellor Klein has long complained that the eclectic and often confusing assortment of admissions policies at the city's 1,500 public schools unfairly favored well-informed and well-connected parents.
"People have unfairly said, 'Well, why did you make that the first issue of the presidency?'" he says.
So, in the middle of a performance that appealed, not unfairly, to well-worn memories, Bowie slipped in a song from 1996, "I'm Afraid of Americans".
Health officials in low-income countries perceive that per diem policies and abuses unfairly benefit already well-connected and better-paid employees.
Labour sees it as unfairly targeting the least well off, including low paid workers as well as the unemployed.
Some oil-services firms that cater to ongoing operations, such as helicopters and maintenance for offshore rigs, may have been hit unfairly hard and could well bounce back.
Critics claim the proposal demonises poor people and welfare recipients, as well as unfairly managing the spending of people who are only on welfare for a short time.
Melodrama is, I think, an underrated and unfairly disparaged form – used well, and at its best, it is simply heightened and exciting storytelling.
Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, addressed that subject on Friday, suggesting that the West was unfairly portraying Russia as well along the path toward authoritarianism.
City officials have said they are opposed to giving back more authority to district offices, arguing that doing so would diffuse accountability as well as unfairly give parents who are more politically connected special access.
