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...shades of opinion. "Enlightened moderation" cannot simply be dictated from above. It will have to take root below, and for that to happen, the government needs to cease renting out stolen civil liberties and restore them to their rightful owners?the people from whom they were taken without consent...
...life at camp, on the other hand, has demanded no upfront commitment, as a septet of my closest friends took it upon themselves to recommend me, without my consent, to the position of Head Counselor of Marksmanship...
More troubling still is the case of Edward Baltram, Harry's stepson by his second wife. This young man has sneaked drugs into a good friend's sandwich, hoping to initiate him without his consent into the wonders of hallucinogenic insights. What happens instead is that the friend and victim, temporarily left alone by Edward, walks out of a window and falls to his death. Once the authorities and newspapers finish raking over the details of this tragic accident, "Edward passed out of the public eye into his private hell...
Courts and legislatures have steadily expanded definitions of who can be sued, and on what grounds. These days you usually can sue city hall, despite the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which holds that governments cannot be sued without their consent. State laws, and court interpretations of them, have granted that consent more and more...
...seemed highly unlikely that the American adventurers could have obtained the help of El Salvador, the beneficiary this year of about $500 million in federal aid, without the knowledge and consent of U.S. officials. Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte formally denied that the plane had taken off from San Salvador. But it has long been an open secret that the Salvadoran air base at Ilopango is a major supply point for the contras...