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...France fought together again in both world wars of the early 20th century, but national interests and personalities always complicated the picture. At the Versailles Conference after World War I, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau scorned U.S. President Woodrow Wilson for his reluctance to punish defeated Germany; in the early years of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt worried that the Free French leader Charles de Gaulle had "all the attributes of a dictator." The past 60 years have had several rocky patches. The low points were 1966, when De Gaulle took France out of NATO'S military command...
Indeed, Zinni disagrees with moves that would continue to punish Pakistan's military. He argues that the 1990s' sanctions were counterproductive, creating "a lot of bitterness in the ranks" of the Pakistani military. "It's too easy to punish the military for political decisions," Zinni says. "If the U.S. had problems with a country on human rights or other issues, I was always ordered as a combatant commander to punish the country's military. We shoot ourselves in the foot in a security sense when we do that...
...because of past use of electricity in torture across the world, there's a thought that law enforcement could use [the Taser] to the same end," says Lt. Dave Kelly of the Phoenix Police Department. "In other words, not to use it to gain control over somebody but to punish somebody, to create pain for someone...
...Friday's ruling made clear that it was lawmakers - not Wilson - who had made the most serious errors. "We must acknowledge that Wilson's crime does not rise to the level of culpability of adults who prey on children and that, for the law to punish Wilson as it would an adult, with the extraordinarily harsh punishment of ten years in prison without the possibility of probation or parole, appears to be grossly disproportionate to his crime," wrote Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears...
PHYS-ED CLASS The percentage of districts that required elementary schools to teach physical education increased from 83% in 2000 to 93% in 2006. Fewer schools are allowed to punish kids with push-ups, which associates exercise with pain...