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...usual in this debate, the two sides, both convinced of their essential rightness, talk past and around each other. Abolitionists like Bruck argue that life without parole is in some ways more retributive than death, not only because the convict has to accept his punishment for the rest of his days but because "it makes us more morally energetic about punishment. We wake up each morning to punish some more." And the death sentence, abolitionists believe, implies that certain individuals have lost the right to call themselves human, an idea that runs counter to the Founding Fathers' vision of inalienable...
...combined this threat of physical eviction with warnings that the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--the University's disciplinary arm--could punish occupants...
...lobbying hard against a settlement, calling it a bailout for big tobacco: "The tobacco industry has never demonstrated an ability to negotiate in good faith or live up to its promises,'' said association chief executive John Garrison. As the industry hastens to reach a settlement, pressure to curb and punish its practices continues to mount: on Wednesday, even as the FTC charged R.J. Reynolds with unfair advertising practices, charging that its Joe Camel campaign targets children, the state of Florida decided to dump $825 million worth of tobacco stocks invested in its retirement plan. In July, the first class-action...
Gore's courtship of labor has already backfired on his boss. Last week G.O.P. Senators threw up new roadblocks to the nomination of Alexis Herman as Labor Secretary to punish the Administration for saying it would weigh the friendliness of companies toward unions in awarding federal contracts. It was Gore who made the case for this approach in a speech last Monday to the AFL-CIO's building and construction unions. There was little new in his announcement, but it was strident enough to bring a standing ovation from the unionists and a fit of pique from the Republicans...
...hails West European efforts to protect existing jobs, but doesn't deal with the fact that those policies make employers reluctant to create new jobs, thus driving unemployment rates in those economies to postwar highs. Similarly, his schemes for slowing the flow of money from country to country would punish serious investors as well as speculators. His insistence that peasants in developing nations need protection from inhumane labor practices ignores the overriding desire of many of those people to escape from the grinding poverty of subsistence farming. Greider also slips when he tries to blame multinational corporations and international financiers...