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...there are deeper questions posed by the case that will not be addressed in the Supreme Judicial Court's ruling. The matter at issue is not whether state courts should set university discipline policies, or whether offenses should have to rise to the level of illegality before universities may punish them. Universities represent special communities whose members have certain rights and obligations not extended to the general public. A university has every right to expect higher standards of conduct from its students than the minimum necessary to avoid a prison sentence. Furthermore, the courts should not become a "super-dean...
Warren said that in order to solve the problem of crime, prisons should try to reform rather than punish inmates. She said each individual case has to be looked at individually...
...kind of father who knows his child's shoe size and the names of his favorite teachers. He wanted Elian back, and he had no desire to live here. "Mr. Gonzalez and I do not share political beliefs," Reno said Friday afternoon. But "it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child." To do so, in fact, would "change the concept of family for the rest of time...
Microsoft also used Windows to punish companies that crossed the software maker. When IBM insisted on developing products that Microsoft saw as a threat, Microsoft withheld technical support and raised the price it charged IBM for Windows. And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code. Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give...
...said their tactic was simple: they manipulated the price of the Windows operating system to punish reluctant computer companies into complying with Microsoft policies...