Word: brightly
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...this kind of "psychological" analysis unpersuasive. There was no reason to believe Elstad's second statement was involuntary, she said. But O'Connor carefully circumscribed her reasoning, saying that a subsequent Miranda confession could be invalid if the initial admission is compelled by police coercion. Furthermore, she contended, the "bright line" of the Miranda rule remains firmly in place; "unwarned" confessions are still not admissible as evidence...
Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
Reed's special students earned 38 semesters of college credits last year by scoring the equivalent of a B or better on the College Board's grueling advanced placement exams, which are designed for bright, ambitious high school seniors and juniors. More than 40% of Reed's honors pupils wind up in such prestigious institutions as Stanford, M.I.T., Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Yale. "When I first saw their results on the advanced placement tests, I was floored," says Jack Richards, dean of faculty at the estimable Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., a prep school that recruits at Reed. In fact...
...contest upped his season total to 78, just 11 sky of the Harvard single-season record set by Crimson Coach Bill Cleary... With five major penaltie, the penalty-minute total for Saturday's game was 61, edging our Friday's 58, for a two-game series total of 119... Bright did not sell out either night, drawing 2650 (200 short of capacity) on Saturday... Apologies to statistician Ted Cadwell, whose name was misspelled in Monday's Crimson...
...bright artificial green of an Astroturf carpet covers the floor of Briggs Athletic Center, and when spring sports practices end for the day, the gym sits silent and empty...