Word: punished
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...backlash, both at home and abroad, against necessary military programs. It has also, if anything, encouraged the Soviets to crank out even more weapons that will eventually have to be countered militarily or bargained over diplomatically, or both. Just as the U.S. is trying, not very successfully, to punish the Soviets for their accumulation of military power in the past, part of the Soviet strategy right now is to punish the U.S. for its policies by creating "new facts" that American generals and arms controllers alike will have to deal with
...ending of the college basketball season last week went way past irony, nearly all the way to poetry. Of many possible settings for its showcase, the National Collegiate Athletic Association selected Albuquerque, where two years ago a judge pointed to the easy morals of the community in declining to punish former University of New Mexico Coach Norm Ellenberger for fraud in the name of recruiting. The Lobos' gym lent to the N.C.A.A. for this occasion, the Final Four, is known...
Free speech is not at stake in this case, the ACE's protestations notwithstanding. Kirkpatrick, as a leading government official, has complete access to the public eye and ear whenever she or her press office wants it. The attempt by some California regents to punish the students who denounced Kirkpatrick, grossly impolite as they were, is a far graver threat to free expression. Were the ACE truly concerned about civil liberties, it would have stressed those dangers instead...
...trying to protect future research projects in China. But what is the value of a whitewashed view of life there? Our scholars should prefer doing no research to being used as propagandists for the host country. If Stanford valued truth and ethical pursuits, it would reward Mosher, not punish...
...variation of that idea, Judge Wilkey proposes a minitrial after conviction to examine challenged police conduct. If it was ruled illegal, the officer's department would have to punish him adequately or risk having the conviction thrown out. Others suggest that the convicted subject of an unlawful search could sue police for damages. But this idea has never seemed very realistic. Scoffs New York City Defense Lawyer Robert Morvillo: "A defendant is not going to have the money to bring a suit, and he's not going to have credibility with a jury...