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In separate stories, the NYT and Post report that a Chinese court meted out harsh prison sentences to two political dissidents.
My appetite for Talk has been weakened by these "revelations," which seem as banal as they are carefully meted out.
The top story at the Washington Post is a highly critical post-mortem on the U.N.'s East Timor diplomacy, while the Los Angeles Times reports abusive discipline meted out by guards at the California Youth Authority.
In the great dome’s interior rotunda, painter George Southwell’s murals illustrate the four virtues that “made” British Columbia: Courage, as shown by George Vancouver confronting the Spanish at Nootka Sound in 1792; Spirit of Enterprise, with James Douglas establishing Fort Victoria for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1842; Work, by those who had to build the Fort; and Justice, meted out to the unruly mob engaged in the 1858 gold rush.
It might also be pointed out that Dole supported the political pardons meted out by Gerald Ford, when he served as Ford's running mate in 1976.