Word: punish
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Maybe Gaullet Elementary doesn’t have the requisite number of child bullies, and the administrators want to meet the quota. Or maybe administrators equally punish students who say things like “school desk” or even “ignorant educators who falsely claim to have one hint of common sense...
...install themselves and harvest your personal information after just one mistaken mouse-click. Unfortunately, it will be hard for Congress to regulate this kind of spyware. Just as spammers and virus coders are rarely found, so the creators of this kind of spyware will be hard to identify and punish. To address this problem in part, Bono’s law should prescribe harsh penalties for the Internet service providers that host the servers to which the spyware reports back...
Harvard has an obligation to prevent infringement of the rights of its students and student groups. The administration must make it clear that they are ready and willing to effectively punish anyone who defaces a poster or otherwise challenges an official student group’s freedom of speech. Students who do infringe upon the rights of their peers should face the Administrative Board. And because it is easy to vandalize a poster without being seen, the punishments students face when they are caught must be sufficient to effectively deter such an action...
...told TIME that their spy catchers are quietly checking on whether Plame had worked on their soil and, if so, what she had done there. Which means if one theme of the Administration leak scandal concerns political vengeance--did the White House reveal Plame's identity in order to punish Wilson for his public criticism of the case for war with Iraq?--another theme is about damage. What has been lost, and who has been compromised because of the leak of one spy's name? And who, if anyone, will pay for that disclosure...
...senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front (A.L.F.), a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells TIME that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.L.F. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development...