Word: punish
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Critics of alternative punishment may imagine that it is not truly punitive. But they underrate the pain of being utterly in the power of the state and closely restricted in personal activity. Under such circumstances, there is a decisive loss of liberty. Perhaps society's main gain from alternative punishment is the elimination of the risk of nondangerous offenders being turned vicious by sheer exposure to prison life. The truth is that a great many convicts would offer no violent risk to society if they were at large. Perhaps half of all prisoners are clearly dangerous, though various experts...
...confidence in his continued good fortune contrasts with his wife Sarah's terrible fear that they are undeserving, that their happy world is doomed. With a religious devotion bordering on fanaticism, Sarah dreads the day when God will punish her family to conpensate for all their prosperous years. Amy Gutman is superb as Sarah--her loyalty is icily cold rather than fervent. Gutman knows that a calm, reticent fanatic is far more unsettling than a fiery one. When she asks the children "Did you think of God, today?" she's not Billy Graham screaming from the pulpit, but a clear...
When will a President learn that disciplining America is like disciplining a child? It's more effective to reward the good than to punish the bad. Why not reward the child who eats his vegetables? Americans need incentives to save and invest [March 24], like raising interest ceilings for small savers and reducing or eliminating taxes on interest and dividends...
...above groups and others that are emerging. Naturally many Evangelicals of a more liberal political bent are nervous about the new muscular Christianity. Candidate Anderson, who has always urged the devout to get involved in politics, says, "I never believed they would interpose specific doctrine to reward or punish candidates. That totally violates the role the church should play." Anderson has probably been hurt somewhat by religious right-to-lifers...
...stuck with Jimmy Carter, the lone exceptions coming in Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts and in Alaska. But the morale of American voters has been steadily eroding. They are running out of patience on Iran. They are fed up with the Administration's ineffectual efforts to punish the Soviet Union for invading Afghanistan. They are worried about potential energy shortages. They are frightened by inflation...