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...election two months earlier than usual and a week earlier than DNC rules allow. Florida's Democratic Party has 30 days to back out of the new Jan. 29 primary or face forfeiting all of its delegates and votes at the Democratic National Convention next summer, according to the draconian DNC ruling. (The Republican National Committee's rules also frown on the earlier primary, but the RNC hasn't demanded that Florida's G.O.P. reschedule it for a later date.) As Dean warned earlier this summer, if Florida's Democrats insist on holding their primary in January, it "essentially...
...Indonesia has transformed itself from a country riddled with radical Islamist movements and terror threats - Indonesians once called autumn "the bombing season" because attacks had become so regular - to one of the world's few triumphs in fighting terrorism. Even better, Jakarta has succeeded without resorting to the draconian antiterror tactics increasingly preferred by governments from Sri Lanka to Iraq...
...works on rats in the lab, and on humans just as well. "The speed with which the punishment is applied is very important, and in our society we've had a long-standing focus on the severity of the punishment," says Wagenaar. "The punishment does not have to be draconian to have an effect in shaping the behavior that we want to deter, in this case drunk driving. A driving-license suspension for a couple of months is a modest penalty, but when it's applied immediately it's effective...
While we disagree with the means used by the protesters for getting their message across—we firmly believe that in an academic environment those of all viewpoints deserve a chance to promulgate their views without disruption—we strongly condemn the police’s draconian response. By choosing to disregard unambiguous guidelines emplaced to protect the right to free speech that is so vital to any university’s mission, HUPD risked chilling speech on campus and silencing dissenting views. Thankfully, the University wisely pressed for all charges to be dropped, and a Middlesex County...
Winsten called the mandatory rating proposal “draconian,” and expressed confidence that, with pressure from advocacy groups, the ratings board would get stricter on smoking in cinema without an automatic...