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...this therefore, one of the most important considerations is whether the person alleging defamation has in some real sense placed himself in an arena where he should expect to be jostled and bumped in a way that a private person need not expect. Where politics and ideas about politics contend, there is a First Amendment arena. The individual who deliberately enters that arena must expect that the debate will sometimes be rough and personal." That's what I think...
...Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, because of a stipulation in the donation. But they do not hear the time-honored--but untrue--story that Widener's mother, who donated the building, insisted that all students take a swim test before graduation because her so drowned aboard the Titanic. Sanks contend that the swim test was introduced with the building of the river Houses...
Others, though, say that this position is, well, Hippo-critical. They point out that doctors, as some of the best-paid professionals in America, can hardly contend that they have not profited from medicine. Princeton Economist Uwe Reinhardt, who is participating in a study of for-profit health care, says that so far he has not seen much difference between the behavior of commercial and nonprofit hospitals. Says he: "Hiring big names is good business and good academics. It's one way to achieve a certain luster. DeVries and the artificial heart give Humana legitimacy in the medical world...
...Harvard classrooms except those in the Science Center and Sever Hall remain at least partly inaccessible to students in wheelchairs, and nine of the 12 residential Houses are totally inaccessible. More important, disabled students say they must contend on a daily basis with the ignorance or insensitivity that often characterizes fellow students' attitudes about their lives...
...MATTER how earnestly Reagan may try to transform the Court, though, he will still to contend with a Senate that is unlikely to rubberstamp nominees, and future appointees are in for rigorous scrutiny and lengthy confirmation hearings. But thermore, the lower courts, which possess some degree of in dependence, are filled with Carter appointees able to safeguard many liberal laws...