Word: draconianism
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...giggling with glee... Last year, someone said that my column reminded them of Liz Smith and I threw a hissy-fit. The memory came back when I read this absolutely inane quote from Smith protesting Robert Downey Jr.'s arrest: "We'd better change the draconian drug laws of America before this country sinks under the weight of a prison population so huge that if we sent them all to Harvard instead of jail, we'd be a nation of educated achievers." Uh, no. I think if you sent the entire prison population to Harvard, dining hall decorum would suffer...
...would be good for students to serve on the Ad Board, to de-mystify it. [The Ad Board] would be a lot less draconian, not like a TV sitcom," says Deborah Foster, an assistant dean for undergraduate education...
...federal laws that properly rest responsibility for illegal actions with the user rather than the network owner. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences already prohibits intellectual property violations under its network policy; if Harvard were punished for violations of its own policies, it would feel pressure to place draconian and unnecessary restrictions on Internet use for fear of liability resulting from any possible illegal actions by students...
...been seen since. Prime Minister Hasina has to this day refused to release the report of the investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, a bill that would create a national human rights commission had been languishing in Sheikh Hasina's cabinet for over a year while she rushed through a draconian "national security...
...Yugoslavia's presidential elections from taking place on its soil. And that would give Milosevic a pretext to send in his army - right on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, when nobody's going to be in a hurry to make new military commitments abroad. The combination of draconian political laws and a hopelessly divided Serbian opposition has left Milosevic sufficiently confident to seek a fourth term in the fall. He's not exactly feeling the heat, but he could be turning it up come September...