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Gideon shows that the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment now appears to compel the states to apply the guarantees of the Constitution's Bill of Rights in toto. Justice Harlan alone expressed serious reservations regarding the legality and wisdom of this principle...
...pupils in general were academically behind every other elementary school in town. The board, nobly it thought, got a city-wide vote to build a fine new Lincoln on the same spot. Negro parents countered with a federal suit on then-novel grounds: it is just as unconstitutional to compel Negroes to attend a de facto segregated school in the North as a de jure segregated school in the South...
...years. At week's end Harold Wilson returned to the attack in the Commons, demanding an investigation of the Profumo case by a parliamentary select committee with sweeping powers. The more limited judicial inquiry proposed by Macmillan, cried Wilson, was merely "a cover-up," because, without authority to compel proof or the attendance of witnesses, it would have to collect evidence "from some of the most unmitigated liars in this country...
...tangled threads of Western culture into a coherent fabric. And the emphasis on pure experience assures one that such a fabric would remain bright unfaded, vital. It is these two aspects of the thought of James that demand our closest attention. And it is these two aspects that compel us to recognize him as Harvard's greatest intellectual...
...future, therefore, the University ought to be more careful about letting the guidance of undergraduate activities pass from the Dean's Office to the alumni office. The University cannot compel its graduates to share its opinion on every subject, but it can make those opinions well enough known so that students and alumni both realize what actions they can and cannot take...