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...says, "you can't control the client. If they haven't paid for advice, they won't take it." Foreman has also boasted that his fee methods top mere law in chastising any of his clients who may be guilty. As he puts it: "I can punish them through the pocketbook, where it really hurts...
...Secular Rulers: "A wise prince is a rare bird indeed; still more so a pious prince. They are usually the greatest fools or the worst knaves on earth. They are God's jailers and hangmen, and His divine wrath needs them to punish the wicked...
...decision to exclude Powell ignored the compelling argument for seating him: Powell fulfills the Constitutional qualifications for a place in Congress. Certainly the Harlem minister abused many of the prerequisites of his office, yet the recommendations of the select committee that were voted down would have served to punish his financial chicanery as well as removing him from the center of power he often used for purely personal advantage...
...week's Cabinet meeting. Almost no one doubts that the bill ultimately will become law. But even the fact that it could be temporarily blocked was a sign of the strength of the opposition, which last week also pushed through an amendment to the penal code that would punish journalists with jail sentences if they "abuse" the new press-freedom law by writing articles too critical of the regime...
...provided they can meet the federal-law requirement and prove injury of more than $10,000. The effect is to bar the draft as a weapon against dissent. It is, of course, still a crime to evade the draft, Medina explained. But the First Amendment forbids draft boards to "punish these students by reclassifying them 1-A because they protested as they did over the Government's involvement in Viet...