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...part on pine-needle basket weaving was doling out stipends of $40,000 a year to every one of its 800-plus men, women and children. But the Coushattas were also $30 million in debt and worried that renewal of their gambling compact would be blocked by hostile local authorities???and that their casino business would be eaten away by others looking to get a piece of the action. So tribal leaders were eager to hear from the handsome, dandily dressed visitor who had flown in from Washington with his partner on a private jet, shared some of their fried...
...special concern, and it is where the court can be expected to retreat most notably from some of the ground broken by the Warren court. The principal target will be the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. Most authorities???except the police themselves?agree that Miranda and other Warren court decisions have not hampered law enforcement efforts appreciably, if at all. Stanford's Amsterdam claims that in practice the rights are meaningless. One federal trial judge is now betting all comers a quarter that Miranda will be reversed outright. Others...
...Establishment?especially local and state authorities???is increasingly un-amused by unorthodox use of the flag. In recent months the number of arrests for flag abuse has risen geometrically. In Massachusetts, under an 1889 law recently dusted off, two youths have been sentenced to a year each in prison for wearing the flag as a patch on their trousers. At Denver's El Rey shop, customers are returning their flag vests because they cause so much trouble with the police...
...when I informed him that he had no business to fly over the British army, that it was contrary to international law, that I should keep his jolly old flying ricksha, and that I was really awfully cross and perturbed and should report him to the authorities???after I had thus unburdened myself, sir, the rascally fellow insulted...
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