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Aaron says he will be completing work on his five-year project of editing the diaries of Arthur Inman, an invalid who believed he could win immortality by keeping an honest diary of himself and his world. Inman did so from 1919 until he committed suicide in 1963. After the diaries are published by the Harvard University Press next semester, Aaron will teach at the University of Texas for one semester...
...supported alternative is the good-faith exception now before the court. The proposal has already been adopted by at least two federal appeals courts and three states. If the Supreme Court approves such an exception, it could be limited to searches conducted with warrants that turn out to be invalid, as in the Gates case. The exception could also apply any time police were able to prove they had acted in good faith...
...ENCHANTED world they create for themselves soon shatters. Hallie receives a phone call from his mother saying she is bringing his invalid father home from the hospital. The thought of late nights massaging the man's withered legs terrifies the boy as he sees his period of tranquility coming to an abrupt end. "Just when you're enjoying yourself someone comes along and weeks everything," he says despondently. The father's drinking compounds further the horror for his young...
...have been writing for a full half hour in excess of the allotted time," said the proctor. "According to university rules. I am compelled to consider your exam invalid...
There are two basic visions of it. Protectionism, in the free trader's eyes: When an economy gets sick, it wants to withdraw from the world. A protectionist psychosis sets in. The invalid retreats into the house and locks the doors and windows and pulls the shades. Hypochondriac, jittery, paranoid, the economic system settles down to feed upon its own inadequacies. It sits in its slippers by the cold furnace and thinks about how well it used to make things, long ago. It disconsolately guzzles Old Smoot-Hawley, far into the night. Then it passes out. Another economy gone...