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...Community Health Initiative, helping to further student wellness on campus. Whether $10 will be a sufficient disincentive is anyone’s guess—ours is that it’s about right. Setting the fee too high would be more effective, but it would also over-punish students for their carelessness (even though it is a harmful and inconsiderate sort of carelessness). And a fee that is too low would not serve as an effective deterrent. In any case, UHS officials should continue to monitor the dinka rate and students’ responses to paying...
...encouraged Judge Janet Bond Arterton to punish Smiley with “the maximum penalty for his crimes,” according to the victim impact statement HCL submitted to the court...
...Constitution. The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation. Now you are seeing proposals in Congress to cut budgets of courts in an effort to in effect punish them for things the legislators don't like. There's a resolution pending to give grounds for impeachment if a judge cites a foreign judgment. You see a proposal for an inspector general for judges. You see a proposal on the ballot in November in North Dakota called Jail for Judges that...
...also co-chair a conference at Georgetown this week on judicial autonomy. The Founding Fathers "were so clear that ... an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation," she says. That independence is threatened by proposals to rein in the courts and cut budgets "to punish them for things legislators don't like," she says. "This is pretty scary stuff." O'Connor does plan to slow down--and say no more often: "That simple two-letter word would save me a lot of trouble...
JOHN MCCAIN'S BILL would protect interrogators from civil suits, would punish them only for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and would increase rights of appeal to the U.S. courts. It would preserve references to the Geneva Conventions in the War Crimes Act. The Arizona Senator and his co-sponsors, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, argue that if the U.S. interprets Geneva to its liking, other countries will too, endangering American troops if they are captured...