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...couple - who contest the charges - should have alerted police after they failed to dissuade him from driving. The charges carry maximum sentences of five years in prison and a €75,000 fine. With nearly 50% of all auto fatalities alcohol related, previously lenient courts now appear ready to punish cavalier French attitudes toward drinking and driving. Ironically, both Angélique and Jean-Sébastien have themselves been victims of drunk drivers - Angélique is wheelchair-bound for life as a result...
...nonsense doesn't stop there. The Pentagon policy was plainly designed to reward those countries that have supported the war and punish those that have opposed it. (Let us gloss over that Turkey, which would not let U.S. troops transit to Iraq, is on the approved list, while Canada, which has sent cash to Iraq, and Germany, which has offered to train a new Iraqi police force, are not.) That, it appears, is the "essential security interest" that justifies limiting competition for these contracts. So you might suppose that it is similarly in the national interest to limit those that...
...many other countries’ model of this process—have helped transition states from sham democracies or military dictatorships into full democracies, as is envisioned for Iraq. The Commission model allows victims to confront those who abused the authority of the state at the highest level and punish them. It also allows for those complicit in a regime’s everyday functioning—in this case, a large portion of the Sunni minority—to recant their involvement with the regime and rejoin civil society. Such is the system that has allowed the multitude...
...it’s undeniable that Jackson wouldn’t be facing these charges if he hadn’t flouted societal convention. As Loder’s assessment reveals, we as a society consistently pass judgments on one another, founded or not. Defy society and society will punish you—even if you’re one of the most successful celebrities in history...
...Following freshmen on a Saturday night: Dear Dean Nathans, The Following Students Were Drinking Underage Last Weekend, Punish Them...