Word: punishingly
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...gadfly's job, and Green was perfect for it. And he ran a smug, safe campaign that turned ugly. Anonymous, racially charged attacks on his primary opponent led to a bitter rift within the city's Democratic establishment, as black and Latino leaders sat on their hands to punish Green--who denied responsibility. The day before the general election, he unleashed a vile ad accusing Bloomberg of pressuring a woman to get an abortion. "Kill it! Kill it" the ad alleged Bloomberg had said. It helped kill Green...
...Rumsfeld may have been inviting bin Laden to make a run for it, knowing well that the escape hatches were slamming shut. American patrol planes watched the borders. Pakistan warned its tribal chieftains that it would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground troops tightened their surveillance of refugees flowing out of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Pakistani guards at the Chaman border detained three Arab women and their two children trying to cross into Pakistan. The three women, from Yemen, claimed that their Arab husbands had been killed in the U.S. bombing as they fled...
...what distinguishes the good guys from the bad? The bad guys take aim at the innocent and the helpless. They do dastardly things like crashing passenger airplanes into buildings full of people, bombing nightclubs full of teenagers and bulldozing entire residential neighborhoods to punish one suspected terrorist...
...gave a small speech calling for an end to hate crimes against Muslims and Arab-Americans, acts he described as “fucking bullshit.” He called for all Americans to accept differences in race and creed, “And know that we will punish the guilty and not the innocent...
Coulter said she worried that if liberal judges are given too much influence, they could ultimately make it impossible to punish criminals...