Word: misbehavior
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...home phones of his top advisers, the spectacular array of extramarital affairs that Jack Kennedy paraded through Camelot, the Kennedy wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr., and so on. Why was only Nixon driven from office for his offenses when he had such precedents for misbehavior? The three articles of impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee were specific and damning. It takes a kind of ethical myopia not to understand that the accumulated offenses of Watergate were different. But in many Americans' minds, the scandal recedes with the years into a small, dark tangle of legalities, a smudge...
John Knowles, M.D., president of the Rockefeller Foundation, on staying well: "Over 99% of us are born healthy and made sick as a result of personal misbehavior and environmental conditions...
...defendants than many of their lawyers did," Turow says. As he continues, it becomes clear the program has indeed made him increasingly sympathetic--with the lawyers. Having defended "hundreds of other people who had committed the same offenses," he explains, "these lawyers could no longer rationalize to themselves that misbehavior is the effect of corrupt social structures, since husbands and wives and daughters and cousins of the same person would come in, all of whom would be perfectly admirable human beings, although they had existed under the same circumstances...
Traditionally, a prison sentence was supposed to serve four purposes: 1) rehabilitation, giving the prisoner an opportunity to learn a trade and go straight; 2) to keep him from further opportunity to harm society; 3) the meting out of "just desserts," society's penalty for misbehavior; 4) the deterrent value-a reminder to citizens generally and the offender in particular of the consequences of crime...
...spring, lawyers are asking the court to require due-process protections before a child can be committed to a mental institution by his parents. The case was brought on behalf of five minors who were placed by their parents in a Pennsylvania mental institution for truancy, drug use, sexual misbehavior and other reasons. Their attorney insisted that the children should not have been committed simply on the say so of their parents, and demanded various precommitment safeguards, including a hearing. But state officials worry that such procedures could deprive parents of the right to supervise the upbringing of their...