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...Reagan Administration, which supports a broad good-faith exception, was pleased, particularly by Justice White's statement that "the substantial costs of exclusion" outweigh "the marginal or nonexistent benefits produced by suppressing evidence" in these cases. Said Associate Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen: "It restores a better balance to the criminal justice system...
...authors of Not in Our Genes shoot down the traditional studies which confirm existing social conditions. Cyril Burt's often-quoted identical twin studies, conducted in the 1950s, supposedly proved the inhabitability of IQ. Those who would later argue for a meritocracy based on IQ--such as Arthur Jensen, in his famous and influential article on the subject in the Harvard Educational Review published in 1969--drew upon Burt's data. But Lewontin and his cohorts point out the fraudulence of Burt's evidence. Not only are there serious problems with the validity of these separated twin studies, but also...
...must go through confirmation hearings for a permanent replacement. So unless Meese decides to step aside or Smith agrees not to, the acting Attorney General for much of the 1984 election year will be, by default, the department's third-ranking official, Associate Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen...
White House advisers have no personal objection to Jensen, 55, a former district attorney of Alameda County, Calif, who had earlier (1958-66) been an assistant D.A. there when Meese was a deputy in the same office. Jensen helped organize the mass arrests of Berkeley students during the Free Speech Movement of the mid-'60s and prosecuted radicals such as Huey Newton and the kidnapers of Patty Hearst. Jensen does not need Senate confirmation, but his tenuous status could be an election-year liability, reminding voters of the disarray at the department and the ethical quandaries that have plagued...
...firm of Rolf Jensen and Associates will test the University's $2 million system for sensitivity and stability, making sure that humidity and dust will not continue to trigger off the system. The company will make recommendations in mid-to late May, a spokesman said...