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...tries to ensure a fair trial for the four Iran-contra defendants, Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell has criticized the congressional committees that investigated the affair for vastly complicating his chore. The committees "were interested much more in what the President knew," Gesell growled last month. "They were chasing a rabbit they never caught." Last week he hinted that some of the smaller quarry -- Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim -- may also elude the criminal snares set by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...
Putting out the garbage is one of life's duller necessities. Last week that boring chore became a bit riskier. By a 6-to-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police may freely rummage through ordinary household trash left at curbside without obtaining a search warrant. The decision was welcomed by the law-enforcement community, which has learned that garbage contains a lot of incriminating ingredients, but it upset civil libertarians. They read the opinion as a tightening of the judicial noose around the already embattled right of personal privacy...
...campus. General Motors is hiring 1,064 college graduates this year, twice the number it recruited in 1987. The University of Texas at Austin received visits from national recruiters for IBM and General Dynamics, instead of the regional representatives who used to handle the chore...
Past criticisms of 1011 have been directed primarily at the attitudes, not the quality, of the teaching staff; teaching the course has been a chore for these professors. Why can't the department find a faculty member--tenured or not--who enjoys the material and wants to teach it, rather than burdening a tenured professor or making it a requirement of a soon-to-be reviewed junior professor...
Cleaning up after the onslaught is often quite a chore. "Besides having to clean up the usual leftovers of beer cans, maids often discover the unwelcome sight of human leftovers," says Risberg. "The number of complaints from maids increases proportionately with the number of teenagers down here...