Word: punish
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Discipline and Punish...
...financing and kill them or spirit them to London to face trial. Putting aside feasibility, that would have been criminal idiocy. Another possibility was to consider realistically the background concerns and grievances, and to try to remedy them, while at the same time following the rule of law to punish criminals. That would make a lot more sense, one would think." Instead of this option, Chomsky points out, George W. Bush has made "virtually a declaration of war against much of the world," which might, Chomsky apocalyptically posits, result in "an imminent termination of the human experience...
...Chomsky and Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Brad Epps. It is despicable that professors and House Masters have signed onto this petition. Israel is not perfect and has certainly made mistakes, but if anything, now it needs our support as it fights for security. Why single out and punish the one country in the region committed to democracy, equality for women and the protection of human life, both Israeli and Palestinian...
...minimize the effect of sexual abuse on children. Remove the whole issue from the public sphere and give up the mentality of revenge. Find ways to separate abusers from any contact with potential victims without a public criminal trial. Let families and social-service agencies work it out, then punish those offenders who don't comply. As children approach adolescence, put less emphasis on protecting them and more on preparing them to deal with the larger world in which they will soon be making their own decisions. Multi-million-dollar settlements to child-abuse victims do not aid the healing...
...tells us the change makes little sense at all. Over the past several weeks the new policy has come under fire—from faculty claiming that they had little knowledge of the repercussions of their vote and from student groups claiming that Harvard has abdicated its responsibility to punish those who violate the school’s sexual assault policy. Each day, it has become clearer that in some fundamental way the change has shattered our sense of community...