Word: lying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops who lie about third-degree tactics used to coerce confessions, he claimed, "are destined to lie as skillfully about warnings and waivers." And anyway, he asked, what is wrong with a little pressure on a suspect? "Until today," he answered, "the role of the Constitution has been only to sift out undue...
...LIE by Alberto Moravia. 334 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Queen, Marie-Louise, each with a separate wing. Last King of France to reside there was the bourgeois Louis Philippe, who raised a chuckle when he widened the bed in the Queen's chamber by a foot (overleaf) so that he and Queen Marie-Amélie could snuggle in together...
...community in what's going on in Cambridge. Yet, it would be easy to overestimate this interest (for most Harvard students, one suspects, "Central" is little more than a subway stop on the way to Boston), and it would be easy to ex-exaggerate its importance. Other forces also lie behind the change...
...roots of the hostility, Harvard officials think, lie in the coincidence of many different, but related conflicts: Yankee-Irish, rich-poor, and educated-uneducated. But Harvard's dislike for this state of affairs has not warped its good sense: the University must survive in this place, and thus the need for someone like Whitlock...