Word: punishments
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...already produced the mini-miracle of enticing French moviegoers into laugh away some of their own enduring regional prejudices. The movie tells the tale of Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines, and derelict factories. Just as dismal, he is told, are the region's residents: beer-guzzling, perpetually-unemployed...
...Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia formally appealed to Russia, the U.N., the E.U. and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) a loose association of post-Soviet countries to recognize their independence. Russia has pointedly abandoned the economic sanctions, clamped on Abkhazia in 1996 to punish its separatism. The Parliament of the Russian Republic of Alania-North Ossetia already voted to incorporate South Ossetia. Next week, the Russian Duma will consider Abkhazian and South Ossetian appeals to join Russia...
...morbidly fascinated public. Teena was often erroneously referred to a lesbian, who had taken on a male identity to avoid the stigma of dating women as a female. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the reaction was how, in the wake of a murder prompted by the urge to punish the transgression of gender roles, no one could resist the urge to somehow fit Teena into some kind of explainable category...
...different issue facing modern Africa.Explored in the relationship between the Ruler and his wife Rachael is the issue confronting so many African countries today: the tyranny of an egotistical ruler. The Ruler’s tendency to sleep with women, sometimes no more than girls, in order to punish their politically insubordinate husbands and fathers epitomizes his deviously manipulative and base regime: for him, they’ve become mere objects to be used. When Rachael confronts him about sleeping with schoolgirls, the Ruler locks her away in a house. Futilely attempting to control every aspect of her environment...
...could find guys with pot and a willingness to meet a stranger? The law is not capable of reliably discerning what Fortunato was thinking at the time (on the stand, Fortunato himself was still struggling with his feelings about sexuality, including his own). That's why we should punish crimes, not the vaporous intentions that lead to them...