Word: draconianism
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...flounder on a simple legal point -- the "crime" of which David Shayler is accused is not illegal in France. When Shayler threatened to use the Web to expose the inner workings of Britain's spy agency, London sought extradition in order to try Shayler under its draconian Official Secrets Act, which gags former government employees. Shayler was arrested in France over the weekend, and the British government now has 40 days to convince a French court to carry out the extradition. "It's unusual to extradite an individual for something that isn't a crime in your own country," says...
...making loud pullout noises late last week), the move was bold nonetheless; this was (don't laugh) Big Tobacco's bid for sympathy. "Tobacco feels betrayed by the Senate on this deal," says TIME Washington correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. "Senators aren't returning their calls, and the legislation is draconian compared to their deal with the states...
...actor and actress. "Good Will Hunting" picked up some well-deserved gongs: best supporting actor for Robin Williams, a long overdue first win, and best screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the freshest faces in town. The biggest loser? It had to be the Awards' director, who, despite draconian efforts to keep speeches to a minimum, watched in agony as the ceremony overran by an hour. Some might say precisely the same of "Titanic...
Clinton banned federal funding of human-cloning research, of which there is none anyway. He then proposed a five-year ban on cloning. This is not enough. Congress should ban human cloning now. Totally. And regarding one particular form, it should be draconian: the deliberate creation of headless humans must be made a crime, indeed a capital crime. If we flinch in the face of this high-tech barbarity, we'll deserve to live in the hell it heralds...
...demagogue on the IMF deal rather than implement it quickly. Koreans who are not thoroughly disheartened by the implosion of their huge, highly industrialized economy are humiliated and resentful at the thought of a bailout from abroad. That makes it even harder for skittish politicians to impose the draconian remedies South Korea must swallow...