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...written into the specific language of the Constitution, the right was found by the Justices among the "emanations" from amendments concerning free association, free speech, self-incrimination and unreasonable search and seizure. Last week, however, the emanations weakened as the court announced two new decisions that seem to curtail rather than expand the individual citizen's right to privacy...
After five years of a generally prosperous and successful existence, the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center will most likely have to close or severely curtail its operations because it lacks necessary financial support...
...their clothes. The streakers galvanized the bleachers by running from top to bottom. But in the left field stands a fat man with his shirt off drunkenly played the exhibitionist, puckishly pulling down his pants at various inspired moments. The fans booed when equally fat policemen swaggered over to curtail the brouhaha...
Weinberger defended the Nixon administration's decision to curtail or eliminate various social welfare programs and substitute general revenue sharing...
...essential ideals, if not practices, of democracy is to protest the rights of minority groups to behave in ways inimical to the majority--providing such expression does not curtail the freedom of others. This is my version of democracy's Scylla and Charybdis: to determine if and when the freedom of one becomes the oppression of another. For example, I would not oppose the censorship of cinema clearly promoting and advocating rape (I expect civil libertarian purists would take issue with me on this.). But cinema depicting sex practices which do not involve coercion belongs, in my viewpoint...