Word: punishments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distrust, infantilizes senior Faculty and allows division to fester as factions fight for favor with the father. Fear of authority, and complicity with it, makes members of our community reluctant to raise objection to the father's arbitrary use and abuse of power, and leads others to shun and punish those...
...time to stop this insanity? The Spanish Inquisition was an example of general-court powers gone awry. Starr is a modern-day Torquemada with unrestricted powers to recklessly punish anyone he judges to be heretical. TOM BYFIELD Minneapolis, Minn...
...reminded of the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." A prominent plaque bearing this caveat should adorn the halls of Washington as a reminder that insidious power can destroy our great institutions, even the presidency. VICTOR E. DELUCIA Valley Village, Calif...
...YORK: Squabbles over diplo-speak and "automaticity" are quickly diluting a U.S.-backed resolution to punish Iraq if Saddam breaks last week's deal with Kofi Annan...
...words long. Or perhaps it might be discovered that the Office of Career Services is filled with asbestos, leaving those students who spend their days racing for the perfect job looking for disability insurance instead. Such afflictions are products of our nightmares; they are too clearly made up to punish us to actually exist. Yet although it fits all the criteria for being the worst possible malady for a student, the shocking fact is that RSI real...