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Shortly after the crackdown, for example, the Australian prime minister gave a televised speech in which he tearfully denounced the regime. Walder says, "Morally, I would have liked [Bush] to have been harsher to the leadership...
Walder says most-favored-nation status should be made conditional on China's future human-rights behavior. He says, "I think they do respond to threats. I would like to see Bush be a little harsher...
...next 30 years. Still, insiders expect the Senate ethics committee, using * shamefully correct everybody-does-it logic, to go easy on the Keating Five -- the Senators who collected nearly $1.4 million in campaign donations from Charles Keating, of the bankrupt Lincoln Savings and Loan. Voters are likely to be harsher...
Adult criminals presumably face harsher punishment than do juveniles. But some delinquents in Houston don't believe that. When arrested, scores of Harris County youngsters in the past year have falsely claimed to be at least 17. Those who were not caught in the lie spent less time locked up than they would have if they had admitted being younger...
That is open to debate. Some columnists point out that there is little one can say today that can ruin a person. Extramarital affairs, divorce, children out of wedlock are no longer utterly shocking (though they may bring harsher judgments on politicians than, say, screen stars, because indiscretions call character and judgment into question). "There is no one today who has the power of, say, Louella Parsons," observes novelist Nora Ephron. "Those people could really punish you." When Parsons revealed in 1949 that Ingrid Bergman had left her husband for director Roberto Rossellini, the scandal kept her from making movies...