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...enough to get his butt kicked. Witness too the fad among teenage boys who, in Fight Club fashion, stage their own real-life amateur-wrestling contests in their backyards, complete with deliberate cuts and chair smashing, in which the point is how much abuse you can take, not mete out. MTV, however, announces on Jackass that it won't accept stunt videos from home viewers. (It's not as if doing that ever got anyone his own TV show...
...SECOND CHANCE Forty-six states and the District of Columbia offer programs in which nonviolent youthful offenders avoid criminal trials and often permanent records by attending teen court. In many instances, the judge and jurors are peers of the accused kid and have the authority to mete out punishment for misbehavior like petty theft. Sentences can mean community service, such as collecting trash...
Then, again like a court of law, the Ad Board has the power to brand a student as a rapist and mete out what it deems appropriate punishment...
...want something from each other and, fatally, get it. Like some of the other actors here, Heche doesn't know the value of seductive repose; she's fidgety, shallow. But Vaughn (a taller, creepier Billy Crystal) understands Norman, his naive charm, his need to watch women, become them, then mete out punishment for the transgression. And William H. Macy is fine as the prying detective. But does any man still wear a hat these days...
...said the authority routinely tortures suspects. In an effort to control militant groups like Hamas, the Authority has set up courts which mete out arbitrary arrests and abuse in the name of controlling terrorism, Sourani said...