Word: punished
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...directors are such cowards. If they use sex at all, it is in the horror-film mode pioneered by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Show a woman in a shower, then kill her. The impulse is both prurient and puritanical; they provide a brief voyeuristic pleasure, then feel obliged to punish the women, and the audience, and themselves...
...Expect Iran to instigate trouble if the West continues to punish Iran for what it sees simply as exercising as its legal right to nuclear technology...
...another campaign to quash the piracy of copyrighted material on college campuses across the country, which they claim has cost billions of dollars of lost revenue. While the RIAA’s concern is understandable—after all, piracy is illegal and the RIAA has every right to punish theft as they see fit—universities have no obligation to be proactive in aiding them. The Association should rethink its approach before handing down more summons. In late February, RIAA president Cary Sherman invoked the law in a letter to the presidents of 2,000 of America?...
...strikes me as unfair to punish Walter Reed's leaders for extending top-notch services longer than military hospitals have in the past. Hospital commander General George Weightman, who was fired, had begun to address outpatient issues even before they became public. But he and his colleagues failed to grasp the extent to which Walter Reed's responsibilities had grown from frontline medicine to hospitality, a job they were no more prepared for than Pentagon planners were for the long-term occupation of Iraq. The battle of the wounded will continue long after the fighting, their plight resonating with...
...event, the judge said he felt misled, at least about Libby, and he told Libby's lawyers that they were "playing games with the process." To punish them, he ruled that they could not say in closing arguments that the pressure of national security issues prevented Libby from remembering any conversations about Plame. All the lawyers could say was that Libby "had a lot on his plate...