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Just in case any Cambridge residents haven't been keeping up on the news lately, there is an election going on today. All eligible citizens should vote; the polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. A list of polling places is on page...
Yale's defending Ivy League football champs battle for their 14th straight win against Dartmouth in New Haven today...
After chronicling the wonders of New York for English audiences for 30 years, Journalist Alistair Cooke is embarrassed to say that he no longer likes being in and about the city. "Now my apartment is a haven, a sanctuary against the city. New York is not manageable for the ordinary citizen living in it." He adds: "It's all right there in the last two volumes of Gibbon. All this opulence and comfort have led to sophistry. We're now hopelessly confused between privileges and rights. Nobody feels an obligation to the city any more. The only obligation...
Crisis-Laden Situation. In both New Haven and Washington, Miranda warnings were presented to suspects in a wooden, unsympathetic manner. Some suspects got the impression that if they took advantage of their rights police might get angry and throw the book at them. As the Yale study points out, a man brought in for questioning is in a "crisis-laden situation" and must make quick decisions that may affect his freedom for years. Often, he may decide to cooperate rather than provoke. Any confession obtained from such a man could hardly be said to result from a voluntary waiver...
...reports from New Haven and Washington clearly suggest that police are violating both the letter and the spirit of Miranda. And they are under little pressure to change their ways. Last spring, reacting to the politics of "law and order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains a direct attack on Supreme Court doctrine. Never mind Miranda's strict rules in federal prosecutions, says one section of the law; now judges need only consider "all the circumstances" in which a confession was obtained be fore they rule on whether it was voluntary. That was, in effect...