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...effort to combat courtroom attacks, the U.S. Marshals Service and other security forces are trying everything from metal detectors and alarm systems to bomb-sniffing dogs. A San Francisco courtroom custom-designed for sensational trials has bullet-resistant glass between the spectators and the court. A few judges in places like Fort Lauderdale and Kansas City, however, have begun taking the law into their own hands. In Old West style, they show up for work packing pistols...
Walter Sullivan, as is his custom, collected the most votes in the fight for city council, finishing more than 450 votes ahead of the leading liberal vote-getter, David Sullivan...
...difficult. This gives the currency a texture and feel that ordinary presses cannot easily duplicate. Unfortunately, no printing-press manufacturer in the U.S. makes an intaglio press of the sort the bureau wants, so it has turned to Britain, a nation with enormous experience in printing inflated currency, to custom-design a press...
...densely populated old part of Kabul, numerous houses are flying red banners. There is nothing ideological about them. It is an Afghan custom to hoist a green or blue flag if someone in a household has died, a red one if death occurred by unnatural causes, "such as murder or in war," as a resident explains...
...national custom for Americans of every philosophical shade to berate the federal courts, from the highest down, over decisions that cut against the popular grain. Conservative calls for the impeachment of activist Chief Justice Earl Warren were commonplace. But to allow anger at the courts to grow into political action that would disable them could prove extremely perilous. What needs to be remembered is why the federal courts so frequently go against the grain of popular sentiment. More often than not they are doing what they, alone among U.S. institutions, were designed to do: safeguarding the fundamental rights...