Word: punished
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LYON, France: One day after unanimously denouncing terrorism, G-7 leaders lashed out at the U.S. for threatening to punish foreign companies that trade with terrorist nations. It's a question of manners, said French President Jacques Chirac: "I don't think economic retaliation is most effective. Taking an entire population hostage is not elegant." At issue is the newly enacted Helms-Burton law, under which a foreign company could be sued in the U.S. for doing business with Cuba. TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister reports from Lyon that Clinton's hands are tied by election-year politics...
...which the actions of individual students may threaten the security of the community, and at that point it is the responsibility of the police to act. The police have encountered safety problems with students under the unlawful influence of alcohol and other drugs, and although they typically do not punish these students, they are perfectly justified in trying to prevent such situations...
Kaufman's final argument is that drugs and drug dealing are illegal and anti-social behavior. Of course, he's right that drugs are illegal and anti-social in mainstream society, but we shouldn't wish to punish someone solely because the law says their actions should be punished. To avoid a circular justification of law, the two students must have done something that was wrong in and of itself. To figure out if the students deserve sympathy or scorn, we need to look further than coarse categorizations of drugs and drug dealers. Were they disruptive influences in the community...
Noah R. Freeman '98, a member of the council who backed the proposal, said the bill was not meant to punish cadets and midshipmen. But the expulsion of the ceremony from the Yard would be the "removal of a privilege" from a discriminatory organization...
There are people all over this world like murderer Thomas Hamilton, who think they have a right to whatever they very much want, in his case the company of young boys, and who will use whatever means they possess to punish those who will not give them what they want. The hundreds of bouquets lining the road in front of the school and filling the cathedral and churches of Dunblane, and the phone calls and letters my wife and I have received, testify that all over this world there are also kinder, gentler people. That is very good to know...