But why stick it to law-abiding plan owners who forgot to fill out papers?
And some otherwise law-abiding parents plan to flout the system by establishing a fake residency in their school zone of choice.
There is no sign of Syria abiding by an international plan to bring fighting to an end, the White House has said.
If the Russians could be persuaded that it is in their long-term interest to dump Mr Assad, as indeed it is, perhaps they could nudge him into abiding by Mr Annan's plan.
Also one abiding lesson; an underdog needs a plan but it needs to be the right plan.
Instead of making good on its threat, on Wednesday, the league gave Mr. Assad a three-day reprieve, offering to send monitors to Syria to determine if the government was abiding by a league-brokered peace plan to end the crackdown.
RABAT, Morocco — In what amounted to a surprise reprieve, the Arab League offered to send civilian and military monitors to Syria on Wednesday to determine whether it was abiding by a league-brokered peace plan to end the crackdown on the country's eight-month uprising.
If Abu Mazen comes out with a good agreement, more or less on the lines of the Clinton plan, more or less abiding by 1967 boundaries, then I think peace can come about.
Several of Mr. Owens's fellow Brooklyn Democratic officials, however, are not abiding by that timetable, and are planning to challenge Mr. Owens, a 22-year incumbent.
"One of the top Democrats in the Senate announced a plan to haul law-abiding citizens before a congressional panel just because they happen to support causes he doesn't," he said.
Supporters of the newest casino plans say they are abiding by the 1988 federal law that first permitted tribal gaming, including a process for tribes to petition for new land.
