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...typical sit-in scenario has run something like this: Angry students occupy some portion of university property, issue a list of nonnegotiable "demands," sing chants and leave in time for the next day's lectures. Spineless administrators have played their part too, often by making concessions or refusing to punish protestors for breaking the rules...
APART FROM how Dean Robert C. Clark has gone about fighting the protests at the Law School is the underlying question of whether he has the right to punish those who sit in at his office and disrupt the operations of the Law School. Clark has said in a letter to all law students that he will likely take disciplinary action against participants in future sit-ins. We believe Clark is justified in making these threats. While photographing and intimidating innocent bystanders is uncalled for, the Law School's right to discipline those who break its rules cannot be questioned...
...Punishment Is Justified," the staff ignores Law School Dean Robert C. Clark's real motives. He is using threats to punish the protesters just as he is using photographs from last week's protests--as a muzzle to discourage all future protests...
...foreign policy. The White House apparently believes the public will not understand decisions taken for hard- boiled reasons of national interest; it thinks those reasons must be given a pious cloak. The U.S. launched the gulf war in part to safeguard oil supplies, in part to protect allies and punish a naked act of aggression -- all of which should have been moral enough. But Bush in addition preached a crusade against a demonized butcher of Baghdad, as if Washington would settle for nothing short of Saddam's departure or demise. That no doubt encouraged Iraqi rebels to expect help...
...again brought out. First he drags it suggestively in front of her throat. Then he gives it to her explaining that she should kill herself. An argument ensues during which the crying Duchess is held in a choke hold. In the second act one brother locks her up to punish her for essentially remarrying after her husband's death. Meanwhile, the other brother arranges for her to be strangled to death...