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Concerned about the credibility of the press, the American Society of Newspaper Editors in a poll of readers found that about two out of three consider their local paper reliable. But perhaps the most telling reader criticism was a feeling that reporters are too intent on "getting a good story and don't worry much about hurting people." People feeling hurt is what makes libel suits...
...worst of times; it is the best of times. Britain and its film industry are mired in an economic funk, and sympathetic Englishmen like Filmmaker John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) are detecting a "national malaise" in which "all our actions are punitive. We are intent on punishing one another, exacting penance." This flagellation is most evident in a trio of new British films. The wave of ironic celebrations of the imperial past (Chariots of Fire, A Passage to India, The Jewel in the Crown on TV) has ebbed, and on the shore we find the carcass of a small, irrelevant...
...guilty of] disenfranchising the people through judicial activism," exulted the President in a speech to federal prosecutors in Washington last week. To end years of what he called "political action or social experimentation" from the bench, Reagan favors judges who follow the so-called doctrine of original intent, under which courts avoid rulings not clearly envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. In recent weeks Attorney General Edwin Meese has put signposts on these principles by attacking some pivotal Supreme Court decisions, including the Miranda ruling that police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning. "Miranda only helps guilty...
...rare off-the-bench speech on the subject. "We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th century Americans," Brennan unrepentantly told a Georgetown University audience three weeks ago. It is "little more than arrogance" to believe that anyone can "gauge accurately the intent of the framers." Last week Moderate Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in with remarks to a group of Chicago lawyers, attacking elements of the Meese-Reagan "original intent" vision because it "overlooks the importance of subsequent events in the development of our law." Even Conservative Justice William Rehnquist spoke...
...fired as special Watergate prosecutor by President Nixon, fears that politicizing the appointment process endangers something more crucial to the nation than either party's social agenda. He warns, "The idea of judicial independence may be at risk." Neither side could welcome such a result. The intent of the framers on that point is beyond debate. --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington