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Johnson suggested that Womack may have known about the elaborate police surveillance system--including expensive closed-circuit TVs and video-recording equipment--set up in Widener in 1992 in an effort to stop the slashings...
...Christmas Carol is an even bigger cash cow. "It pays the bills for the rest of the season," says Lawrence Harbison of Samuel French Inc., the premier play- licensing house. The adaptation of Dickens' 1843 cautionary classic is by far the most widely produced play on the regional circuit...
...privacy -- also prevents schools from conducting drug tests on students. The lawsuit was brought in Oregon against a school district which tossed the plaintiff, James Acton, off the football team in 1991 after he refused a drug test. A lower court ruled against the student but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. The district's appeal relies on a 1985 Supreme Court ruling that states that the need to maintain order in public schools can justify limits on privacy rights...
...codes to instructions for making long-range rocket bombs. As if to provoke the authorities, some college students have posted collections of electronic pamphlets that include Suicide Methods, an instruction manual for self-destruction, and The School Stopper's Textbook, which tells students how to blow up toilets, short-circuit electrical wiring and "break into your school at night and burn it down...
...another sign that phone and cable companies are being allowed into each other's domains, a federal appeals court today upheld a lower court decision allowing phone companies to sell TV programs directly to their customers. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court ruled that the current federal regulations barring phone company entry into TV are a violation of free-speech rights. Congress had enacted the ban in 1984 to prevent phone companies from using their monopoly power to subsidize efforts in cable. Many cable companies are aggressively pursuing plans to provide phone services. The congressional...