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...Ignore previous message." Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White held that when examining a motion for summary judgment, judges must determine "whether the evidence presented is such that a reasonable jury might find that actual malice had been shown with convincing clarity." Specifically, said White, judges must assess such evidence in light of the stringent "clear and convincing" standard of the landmark 1964 libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. The effect would be to make libel complaints more difficult to justify at the pretrial stage...
...that so agitated my contemporaries , was being most peaceably and generally conducted. So, in Democracy in America, I attempted to explain how a multitudinous people contrived to govern themselves and live together under terms of equality--a thing the world had never before witnessed. I ventured not only to assess the effect of the American political system on the habits and enjoyments of citizens beholden to no power excepting themselves, but also, extrapolating from my evidence, to suggest what might spring from the new way of life I observed in America...
There is need for a thorough, dispassionate biography of Murrow, one that could assess his precise contributions to American journalism--and to modern relations between the news media and Government during his stint as director of the U.S. Information Agency in the Kennedy Administration. Ann M. Sperber, a former book editor and freelance writer, has doggedly undertaken the task in Murrow: His Life and Times. Her volume is nothing if not inclusive: it mentions head colds and household accidents, and is replete with sometimes pointless anecdotes in which Murrow is at most a peripheral figure--half a page, for example...
...With specific respect to air quality, it isbest left to the DEQE to determine and assess on acase by case basis" what plants should open, O'Kaytold the justices, saying that the risk was notthat great...
...expanding its support of undergraduate groups, Radcliffe would be forced to assess, as it has not done for years, the situation and needs of its students...