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Thomas W. Lamont became the youngest partner at J.P. Morgan in 1911, and was one of President Wilson’s negotiators in the Treaty of Versailles. Two-time candidate for Senate Corliss Lamont ’24, Ned’s great-uncle, was director of the ACLU for 22 years and fought censure by Senator Joseph McCarthy and mail censorship by the Central Intelligence Agency in court...
...ACLU says that black boxes in cars are part of a "surveillance monster." And that police departments and insurance companies will be gathering more and more data on people's driving habits. Does this worry...
...Pragmatists contend that the drop-off is mostly a matter of cost. Although individual drug tests seem cheap - $25 to $50 each, according to Quest - the total expense gets difficult to justify when so few tests come up positive. According to a 1999 ACLU study, the federal government spent $11.7 million to find 153 drug users among almost 29,000 employees tested in 1990, a cost of $77,000 per positive test. Many industries, particularly construction, transportation, health care and retail, also face labor shortages, and the fierce competition for workers may compel employers to forgo drug tests that could...
...still forfeit their funds from the government—and a spate of drug-related incidents earlier this year at Harvard has raised questions about the inviolability of financial aid at the College.Opponents of the federal drug policy want the HEA to be amended further.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the group Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), challenged the constitutionality of the HEA this past March, claiming that the amended version still offended the Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause by punishing students twice for the same offense.And College administrators confirmed that Harvard mitigates...
...Sandra E. Pullman ’02, the president of the Harvard ACLU and a former Crimson arts editor, defended the decision to invite Flynt, saying that the documentary “is being composed by an outside film company, and he’s not making a dime from it.” She added that Flynt had “expanded the reach of free speech [protections through] his precedent-setting defeat of Jerry Falwell...