Word: counseling
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Support for police photography of protests is by no means unanimous. Last year, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 ordered Harvard police to stop videotaping a militant ACT-UP protest. We hope he will continue to show an enlightened attitude and ban the use of such Orwellian techniques...
Last week McCleskey again petitioned the Supreme Court. This time he sought to have his conviction reviewed on the ground that his constitutional right to counsel had been violated when the police used a jailhouse informer to obtain a confession from him; this time the court was even sterner in its rejection. In a 6-to-3 ruling, the majority said such repeated petitions as McCleskey's "threatened to undermine the integrity of the habeas corpus process." Then the court set tough new standards that severely curtail a state prisoner's ability to bring claims of violations of his constitutional...
...misunderstand me. Sometimes it's necessary, not to mention quite fun, to judge others. In this case, however, the majority has chosen to counsel not only the students of Harvard (who actually read The Crimson), but also their peers at Yale (who read that other paper). I can see it now: Yalies scrambling to read the latest advice from the philosopher kings--and queens--in Cambridge...
...prime-time shows. It will take the networks years to reap the rewards of the new ruling. Nonetheless, producers reacted angrily. "We made the best shows the networks ever had," lamented Lee Rich, executive producer of Dallas. "This decision kills the system." Responded NBC's equally dissatisfied general counsel: "We went to the FCC seeking complete repeal...
Explaining why he took the job at Harvard, Steiner says, "Mr. Nixon got elected president, so I knew I was going to be bounced from my job." And while he was working for the committee, the Corporation decided to create the position of general counsel. "Fortunately it was before the days of national searches," he jokes. "And there...