Word: punishable
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Cole said that state-appointed defense attorneys are often inadequate, and that prosecutors have too much discretion in deciding whom to punish--and to what extent. He said the courts have taken a "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to racism within the criminal justice system...
...year ago this month, the Cambridge School Committee voted not to punish teachers who oppose MCAS or students who boycott the test...
...were friends of guerrillas at that time. They had ideals. We sympathized with their ideals. The same guerrillas who kidnapped my father had slept in our house. But our life took a complete turn. At first, it was the desire for revenge, to punish those responsible -some of my brothers went to the authorities for help and denounced some of the guerrillas. But they were held for just a few days. So we sought justice, but when we couldn't find it, we knew we had a right to get that justice by our own means. In the beginning...
...Vietnam's wars against the French and the Americans were mere blips in centuries of history through which the principal adversary of the Vietnamese has always been China. Indeed, six years after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, Hanoi and Beijing fought a brief border war after Beijing sought to "punish" Vietnam for ejecting the Beijing-aligned regime of Pol Pot from power in neighboring Cambodia. (The Chinese, in that encounter, suffered what might politely be termed a thrashing.) And in recent years both countries have laid claim to the Spratly Islands, a disputed, possibly oil-rich archipelago in the South...
...DENY REALITY If a reporter asks how you're doing in California, and you're down 30 points, don't say, "We're gonna win it." At least say something like, "It's going to be a struggle." The press appreciates candor and generally doesn't punish you for it. Look at what John McCain got away with. Speaking of McCain, here's Rule 3 for presidential candidates...