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...prosecutors anyway; when they have justification for thinking that crime is going on, they can make most searches and tapes by obtaining warrants first. Says Herman Schwartz, a wiretap-law expert at the State University of New York at Buffalo: "The provision blows a hole in the entire fabric that the Supreme Court has woven to deter official lawlessness...
Incarnate Goals. The "postponement" ripped apart a carefully woven fabric of international cultural cooperation that had survived many other political and ideological shocks. For its part, Egypt lost the admission charges that U.S. museums had been prepared to donate to a UNESCO project for rescuing the temples of Philae from inundation by the waters of the Aswan High Dam. But the chief losers were U.S. art lovers. Among the masterpieces they had been about to see were many that had never before left Egypt...
Perhaps the CAP was a victim of its own rhetoric; promising too much, when the structures the local agencies sought to change represented the very fabric of American, life, Certainly, many CAP's suffered from an "inversion of purpose." The administrators of local, agencies became concerned with maintaining alliances which perpetuated the organization (and alienated those who were to benefit from the CAP) rather than encouraging initiative and imagination...
...sturdiest pulpits of Middle America stand in the 34,335 churches of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC's 11,498,613 members, making up the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, are the fabric of the now somewhat frayed Bible Belt that arcs from California to Virginia. In folklore-and partly in fact-they stand as stern exponents of a Scripture understood in literal terms and a life lived by rough-hewn moral precepts. Last week the 13,500 "messengers" who gathered in Denver for the SBC's 125th anniversary meeting* seemed to be running true to type. They...
...seem impotent or irrelevant beside ideas like black power, women-power, or peace. And I suppose each person has his own idea of what inputs make life richer. But it does appear that all people seek visual joy, whether they are Steins buying Matisse paintings or housewives selecting fabric at Corcoran's. Project '70 demonstrates that it is feasible to offer people such pleasures in their cities, and that therefore proves that cityscapes need not be as bleak and depressing as they typically...