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Trade and travel sanctions imposed by the U.N. and the Organization of American States were designed to punish the military and its elite backers for overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. Yet even a modicum of money buys a pleasant life-style in Haiti. Ships from Europe keep stores in middle-class Petionville stocked with Italian artichoke hearts and Georges Duboeuf wine from France. Last December the so-called friends of Haiti -- the U.S., France, Canada and Venezuela -- warned the military that they would seek a worldwide U.N. embargo on all commercial goods to Haiti unless progress...
...HASCS has more control than the Ad Boardover how to punish student abuses of the network...
EDUCATION: Do Teachers Punish Blacks More Often...
However, the Guidelines suggest that "public and semi-public speeches are unlikely to be affected by this prohibition." Yet if the Law School were to apply its policy consistently, in pursuit of a more sensitive educational environment, it would have to monitor and sometimes punish the speech of the speakers that come to its campus. This logical and undesirable implication highlights and undesirable implication highlights the dangers of formulating and implementing speech codes. Speech guidelines at an institution of learning are especially worrisome since, in democratic societies, it is the academy which is supposed to serve as the leader...
...prison began to change. The state boasts one of the highest lockup rates in the country, imposes the most severe penalties in the nation and vies to execute more criminals per capita than anywhere else. This state is so tough that last year, when prison authorities here wanted to punish an inmate in solitary confinement for an infraction, the most they could inflict on him was to deprive him of his underwear. It was all he had left...