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First Amendment experts generally cheered the Dallas ruling. "Over and over, the court has said that licensing standards must be crystal clear," explained University of Michigan law professor Frederick Schauer. "This is a quite proper application of the court's long-held distrust of official discretion." Conservative court commentator Bruce Fein disagreed, charging that "the high court is doing a pirouette around obscenity laws...
...House and the Senate, the Harvard name does not carry much weight. Many lawmakers come from blue-collar backgrounds and tend to distrust the University. Most efforts by Harvard to exert pressure on the state would be ineffective, if not counterproductive, Barrett says...
...million informants and collaborators -- in a population of 23 million -- clandestinely monitored mail and telephone conversations, analyzed handwriting samples to track down the sources of dissident material, tailed foreigners and spied on citizens in every apartment block, village and factory. Their ubiquitous presence helps explain the deep vein of distrust and suspicion pervading Rumanian society. The Securitate further functioned as the national intelligence service...
...many Angelenos, faced with relatively low city wages and the prospect of having to reveal their most intimate financial affairs, won't avoid public service if the code goes into effect. Says Michael Harmon, a professor of public administration at George Washington University: "The implicit message is one of distrust...
That is snobbery, of course, and a reader addicted to another sort of trash -- detective stories, say -- must distrust his instinct to ridicule horror novels. But in each genre there is good trash and bad trash, and King's does not seem very good. Mention this to a fan -- young, intelligent, well read -- and the reply is the same as is heard, above the level of pop lit, when one more dismal fiction by Joyce Carol Carol Oates appears: "Yes, but you should read the early books...