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...student at the University of Canterbury, he'd had no strong feelings about the controversial 1981 South African rugby union tour of New Zealand. A radical in her student days, Clark would have enjoyed her opponent's discomfort. But it's hard to believe that voters would seek to punish Key for a bout of indifference nearly 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Step to the Right? | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...Once people have completed their sentences, you can't go back and punish them for the same crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...Fritzl also told Kastner that he would punish his imprisoned family by turning off the cellar lights (the shelter was windowless) or withholding food for several days. He taunted his children with photographs of other kids playing outside in the sun. (Read a TIME story on the Fritzl case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria's Sex-Slave Father Tells His Side of the Story | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard Corporation for political reasons. I do not advocate for the recognition of ROTC nor related overhead reimbursement from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences but from the Harvard Corporation. It is possibly illegal and certainly not fair nor logical for the Harvard Corporation to in effect punish Harvard cadets and midshipmen by withholding formal recognition of ROTC programs due to political policies imposed by Congress. Such political issues are entirely beyond the control of the Defense Department, the ROTC units and Harvard students. It is not appropriate to embroil U.S. military organization with politics...

Author: By Paul E. Mawn | Title: Formally Recognize ROTC | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...grandfather, an activist with a progressive party called Republican Left, was assassinated by pro-Franco Falangists in 1936, that law doesn't go far enough. "The political branch of the government is still refusing to publicly recognize the victims of the repression," he says. "And still refusing to punish the perpetrators. If the law had been better, we wouldn't have had to go to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, Spain Faces Up to Franco's Guilt | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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