Word: deterent
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...prison's purpose is to punish, protect and deter, the journeys of Paris Hilton and Genarlow Wilson leave you wondering whether Justice, far from being blind, needs her vision checked. The reckless white heiress was all but impossible to lock up; the vindicated black honor student is impossible to set free...
From the beginning, however, the surge strategy relied heavily on the idea that the increased presence of U.S. forces would deter sectarian violence. That worked, for a time. The Mahdi Army, the largest Shi'ite militia, tacitly agreed to suspend its campaign of murder and intimidation against Sunnis as the surge got rolling in March and April. For two months, Shi'ite death squads largely checked themselves, even while Sunni extremists pressed a campaign of bombings that left 617 Iraqis dead in March and 634 dead in April. (In May, the fatalities from bombings fell...
...then as now, caused controversy. Theda Skocpol, then a candidate for tenure and now the outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, accused the University of sexism, the Director of Harvard's Center for Behavioral Sciences controversially called on society to exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality," and Women's Studies struggled for meaningful recognition as a degree-granting concentration. Many of the specific struggles from 1982 have been won, but the broader issues-issues of Harvard's treatment of its neighbors and its students, and of women and minorities-remain to be resolved. The selection...
...trucks or walking through the Eurotunnel. Sarkozy, whose tough stance against illegal immigration helped build his career and win him the French presidency, claimed that Calais would soon be empty of would-be immigrants. Relief groups decried the move as inhumane and said Sarkozy's initiative would not deter desperate people...
...only not a perfect system, the death penalty accomplishes nothing," says Rob Warden, who heads up the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University's Law School. "Quite the contrary. It doesn't deter crime, and it's very costly. Not just financially, but socially. We have some evidence in all of the cases where people are currently on death row in this state that the defendants were mentally ill - psychologically, if not legally - and there will be so many appeals and years will pass before these are resolved that couldn't, actually couldn't, see an execution in this...