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...influx, over the years, of migrants from the neighboring island of Malaita onto Guadalcanal, and the Isitabu group has waged a bloody campaign to evict them. Economic sanctions remain the West's most powerful response to such turmoil, but Western leaders have little stomach for an option that will punish the islands' already impoverished residents. Which is why it may be some time before Britain's former Pacific islands live up to the peace described in their name...
...first there's this one last little piece of business to finish. Last week a disciplinary committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court recommended that the court punish Bill Clinton--graduate of Yale Law School and former professor of law at the University of Arkansas, onetime state attorney general and most recently President of the United States--by taking away his license to practice law. The largest question raised by the Lewinsky scandal has, of course, been answered: Should the President, given his troublesome testimony under oath, be removed from office? The answer, duly arrived at by democratic means...
Here's a good way to punish Bill Gates without resorting to the breakup of his baby [NATION, May 8]. Put him in front of a computer and have him put a 57-page document in the proper format using Microsoft Word. That'll teach him. PHYLLIS HIRSHORN New York City...
...long as Sankoh's men continue to hold some 350 U.N. peacekeeping troops hostage, that's an acute dilemma. The Sierra Leoneans, who sentenced Sankoh to death in 1998 before being obliged by an abortive peace deal to make him vice president, may be inclined to punish him for his innumerable crimes - a sentiment reflected in reports that he was paraded naked through the streets of Freetown by Sierra Leonean troops before being handed over to British paratroopers to be flown to a secret location. But the immediate priority of the U.N. remains the release of the hostages, and that...
...effect of this lawsuit will be to punish Microsoft no matter what harm this does to consumers, software developers, the industry that has driven America's remarkable growth--or, indeed, the entire economy. That is why Microsoft plans to appeal the district-court decision, which is at odds with a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals and with antitrust law. We remain confident that the courts will reaffirm that every company, no matter how successful, should be encouraged to build better products for consumers...