Word: punished
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...past five years, most states have made it easier to charge and punish children as adults. Thirteen-year-olds are therefore getting mandatory life-without-parole sentences, and there's nothing appellate courts can do to help them. We have effectively discarded these lives. Should we make 11-year-olds eligible for life behind bars? Nine-year-olds? Seven-year-olds? We are inching closer and closer to a moral line...
Brave words, and familiar. Clinton, the day after the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American airmen in Saudi Arabia: "We will not rest in our efforts to find who is responsible for this outrage, to pursue them and to punish them...
...also failed to mention the jury's findings that Warner acted fraudulently and with malice when it prevented Mr. Coppola from making Pinocchio. The jury's award of $60 million in punitive damages (on top of the $20 million in compensatory damages it awarded earlier) was designed to punish Warner for that malicious wrongdoing. It was the largest civil award ever against a major film studio. BRIAN EDWARDS Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger Los Angeles...
...laggards. Within 24 hours, their pollsters were arguing that the G.O.P. had badly misjudged public sentiment, that even if the ads had turned people against this bill, more than two-thirds of voters still want some bill. If the G.O.P. thinks the polls show the public won't punish them, says a White House political strategist, "they're getting snowed by the tobacco lobby...
...fair for children to be used as pawns by one parent to punish the other? My ex-wife and Faye Yager, who runs an illegal underground network, don't speak for my children. They don't speak for me. Yet, in concert, they removed my daughters' rights to see me and my rights as a parent to see them. I find that reprehensible. One of your readers characterized Yager as a saint. Mother Teresa was a saint. She never broke the law or lived a life-style separate from that of the people she helped. Yager is no Mother Teresa...