Word: draconian
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...Crimson reported just before spring break that Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 would be a part of the new committee to review the Administrative Board, the College’s draconian disciplinary body. A day before, University Hall announced a new “Dowling Committee,” the famous group that formed the Undergraduate Council and reformed student-faculty committees 25 years ago, to recommend changes regarding student governance. A week before that, Ted A. Mayer, the executive director of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), held a public forum and opened a blog...
...leapfrog Florida's primary from March to Jan. 29. The move violated Democratic as well as Republican party rules, but many if not most Florida Democrats also supported it. Still, the DNC ruled that all 210 of Florida's Democratic nominating delegates would be annulled. It exacted the same draconian punishment on Democrats in Michigan, which moved its primary to Jan. 15. The DNC also allowed Iowa, New Hampshire and other small, early-primary states to force Democratic candidates to pledge not to campaign in Florida or Michigan...
...place [in 2005] has had a positive effect? -Michael Blackwell, Cedar Falls, IowaI do. I viewed it as an opportunity to say to our players that there is this issue of respect, and we just have to wake up and focus on that. It's not the draconian dress code that people came to believe it was. You would have thought I'd said you had to wear a tuxedo or tails to a game...
...leaders? There aren't any politicians - Democrat or Republican - willing to speak truth on this. Instead, politicians compete to prove themselves more draconian than thou, to embrace America's most profound and enduring policy failure...
...Both parties threatened sanctions; but only the DNC came down hard, refusing to seat Florida's delegates at the Democratic convention this summer, essentially nullifying the state's Democratic primary results. The RNC banned some of Florida's delegates too, but it wasn't about to go as draconian as the Dems - whose candidates even signed a pact not to campaign on the peninsula before the primary - and risk weakening the stature of one of its most popular governors...