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...support their initiative, Michigan welfare officials are citing years of widely accepted corporate drug testing; their opponents counter that private institutions are not limited, as government programs are, by the Fourth Amendment. Who's right? It depends on whom you ask, says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The current Supreme Court is very conservative on the Fourth Amendment, and they?ve given government a lot of freedom to enact what many consider to be unreasonable intrusions." In the past, explains Sanders, "the court has generally upheld random drug tests when it has perceived an important impact on safety...
...animal-rights movement is gaining a lot of momentum in the U.S., and they?ve got enormous support in Congress." But there is one obstacle the backers of the bill may not be able to jump over. "This is a classic First Amendment situation," says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The problem with the law the animal rights advocates are proposing is that it?s almost impossible to target only the evil you want to suppress." You run the risk, says Sanders, of eliminating other forms of expression: for example, documentaries about bullfights or cockfights, or movies in which cruelty...
...Federal civil court. The case under consideration was brought by a Virginia Tech student who charges that two members of the football team raped her during her freshman year. So why would a case like this fall under the aegis of interstate commerce? Because, explains TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders, according to the 1994 act, when women are attacked or brutalized, their prospective absence from work or school interferes with the flow of interstate commerce, pushing the case neatly into federal jurisdiction...
...While Sanders' cavernous architecture swallowed the vocals of more than a few of the tunes featured and rendered many songs murky, the restrained guitar of Alain Johannes and the impassioned vocals of Cornell more than adequately shone through...
...TIME national affairs writer Alain Sanders figures the government is in this for more than the money. "The industry regulation that the states won wasn?t as far-reaching as Clinton wanted, and the money they got isn?t going to smoking prevention," he says. "The administration is going to try to use a lawsuit as leverage to get the regulatory measures that failed in Congress, and also get in a slap at the Republicans for killing that bill." Indeed, a jury might find it hard to see the U.S. government as the victim. The generation that is these days...