Word: sanctions
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...Heider, an anthropologist from the University of South Carolina. Heider, who has taught at Harvard, Brown and Stanford, describes the abstemious sexual behavior of the 5,000-member tribe in the current issue of Man, the journal of Britain's Royal Anthropological Institute. He reports finding no strong sanctions against sexual activity or any other ready explanation for the undernourished libidos of the Dani. Under questioning, tribesmen said violation of the post partum abstinence would cause trouble with the tribe's ghosts. Yet the Dani are notably blase about their ghosts, and Heider concludes that their observance...
Last weekend the governing body of the Games, the International Olympic Committee, was so irate over a dispute between Taiwan and Canada that it threatened the ultimate sanction, canceling the entire Olympics. The issue: Taiwan's right to fly a flag with the word "China" on it. Canada, which has diplomatic relations with Peking, refused to let the Taiwan team into the country, and the athletes who were en route had to seek refuge...
...actually abhors the punishment and therefore inflicts it mainly on minorities and misfits. The court also held that although there is no proof that capital punishment is effective as a deterrent, it is "an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct," and therefore "an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme crimes." Only dissenting Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan reaffirmed the traditional liberal view that all executions are, as Marshall put it, a "total denial of human dignity and worth...
...safety of their constituents," it was recognizing that a confused but enormously significant transfer of sovereignty has gradually been taking place during the past year. Falling from power: the British Governors, now all in flight, in prison, or in refuge behind British guns. Now in power, under congressional sanction, are the Committees of Safety, some of them vaguely derived from the once secret radical groups, but at present responsible for such local problems as the buying of militia provisions and the maintenance of public order. In between, and harassed from all sides, stand the colonial legislatures that are now charged...
Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, speaking on behalf of Edelin, concluded the appeal, saying that because it could not be adequately proved that the fetus was "viable" when still inside the body of its mother, the state had no power to impose a criminal sanction on Edelin...