In the end, the West must be prepared to stand up to the Kremlin's menacing bluster and mete out appropriate punishment to the Serbs for their genocidal aggression, or face much more of both.

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Mrs Clinton, however, emerges as a political colossus compared with the punishment the authors mete out to Mrs Palin and Mr Edwards.

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Then the best punishment I can mete out is for them to go and spend several weeks cleaning out public toilets and sewers.

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But many of the Han demonstrators said they could not rely on the government either to guarantee their safety or mete out appropriate punishment.

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