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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...calm response. "Those foreign protesters appear to have been handled with a relative level of restraint by security forces," says Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, an NGO based in New York City. "In the eyes of the Chinese government, the priority isn't to punish those individuals - they want them removed from the scene and off their hands. They're an embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Protests: Low-Key Response | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...regular customer. If you like a restaurant, cultivate a waiter. Don't use your cell phone when the waiter is talking to you. If you get bad service, you should still leave a tip. It's not only for the waiter. When you stiff the waiter, you also punish people who may have had nothing to do with your having a bad experience. Instead, I would write a letter - a real letter, not an e-mail - to the manager. When they see that, they're going to make amends with some kind of gift certificate or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of an Angry Waiter | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

...swift-boater so far--George Bush the Elder, who built his campaign against Michael Dukakis around the Pledge of Allegiance and a furloughed convict named Willie Horton--was also someone peddling decency as part of his official persona. History shows that any candidate who relies on the voters to punish a swift-boater is going to be disappointed. People tell pollsters they are sick of nasty politics, then they respond to it every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Swift-Boat or Not | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...card number and a promise not to do it again. The price point is chosen with skill: large enough to hurt, but small enough that litigating would cost more. An industry spokesman responded in The Crimson that thievery is thievery. Bills were introduced in some state legislatures that would punish universities for students’ downloading. Such laws would force universities to act as agents of the recording industry, censors of digital information flowing into students’ rooms. Universities are the last places where communications should be monitored; under such laws, they would be the only residential settings...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis | Title: Copyright Harvard 2008 | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...sudden moodiness or aggression, injuries or indecent behavior towards other students. In early spring, a teacher in the southern town of Nativot caught one child sexually accosting another. Social workers investigated and found that the boy's mother said she had sex with her child as a way to "punish" her husband for having left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloistered Shame in Israel | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

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