punctuation WHETHER

(1)The study reveals that women who discuss and negotiate before
embarking on a diet are expected to get better results,
  with less infidelity displayed by the men towards the roots, shoots.
and leaves. we, of course, could have proffered
  the same advice with much less hassle: negotiating one's way around
a sticking point is alway a bettar idea than sounding
  a bugle and a call to arms, whether on the battlefield or the family
dinning table.(hindustan times-monday, MAY 28,2012)

(2)The Shah Rukh Khan affair at the Wankhede stadium, and  the latest
and most shocking-RCB'S Australian player Luke
Pomersbash being arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of molesting
a woman and assaulting her male partner in the
team hotel are indications of the sense of entitilement that those  in
the IPL have come to have, whether it is the
players or the owners.(source-Hindustan Times Monday May 21, 2012)


(3)But Noam Chomsky reminds us, "Social security is based on the
assumption that we care about each other, that we have a
communal responsibility to take care of people who cannot take care of
themselves, whether they are children or the
elderly."(source-hindustan time Wednesday, May 23, 2012)

(4)IT is a truism that in most social systems, whether in business or
politics, a buy-in of all stakeholders is an
 essential prerequisite for any fundamental and lasting
change.lot.(source-hindustan times Monday May 07, 2012)