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...match of the season, got trounced, 6-1, 6-0. At No. 5, Barker was playing Oscar Chow in the deciding match. After splitting the first two sets, Barker was up a break, 2-1, in the third when he starting cramping in his right leg. The problem was minor, but it was enough for Chow to get an opening. He got on a roll and went up 5-3. Barker staved off three match points, and held off four more in the final game before falling 6-4 in the third...
...Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment's assurance of equal protection. In only the most upsetting of recent string of decisions, the court ruled in Whren v . U.S. that the police were not out of line when they used a minor crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia held that when a police officer actually arrests a driver for a traffic violation and then searches the vehicle, a Fourth Amendment-based motion to suppress evidence...
Whren lowered the bar for the kind of articulable suspicion police officers needed to have to conduct a search. As long as they are willing to arrest the suspect for any minor violation they can find, the Supreme Court have been given police too much room to use racial profiling. Another case, U.S. v. Weaver, made race an acceptable part of the articulable suspicion required for a Drug Enforcement Agency deputy to stop a nervous-looking suspected drug-courier in an airport when flying from a source city and purchasing his ticket with cash. Utilizing race as an acceptable component...
...designer” wines from the various sub-regions. Alas, I was quite foolish. But all was not lost. This faux pas is a lesson for every Harvard man: woe to he who deigns to venture outside the delightful Yard cloister that shields him from the unseemly. Notwithstanding my minor indiscretion, it was a chance to, eyes shut, luxuriate in the Tuscan bliss that each glass invariably affords. One can only be so happy as to have Chianti pursue the more remote and nebulous regions of the palate...
...Harvard women are ambitious. At other colleges, where women study teaching or nursing, Wolfe told his surprisingly docile Harvard audience, they don't actually major in those subjects: "They major in their boyfriends; they minor in nursing." Not so, he says, for the men. At Harvard, however, it would be foolish to say the women major in their boyfriends. Success comes first for both sexes, and if ever it was doubted whether women have the capacity to compete with men--pay attention, Pat Buchanan--Harvard explodes the myth. But every Harvard man, and woman for that matter, will have...