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...thing Americans know about being arrested: You have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney, and anything you say may be used against you. These rights became required reading for police when taking a suspect into custody after the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda ruling. But this week, a federal court in Virginia may have opened the way for the Supreme Court to put an end to a reading of the Miranda warnings. "The lower court ruling could be the start of something dramatic," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. "It could become the vehicle for overturning...
...lower court ruled, in effect, that the Miranda warnings are only a constitutional suggestion, as opposed to a constitutional requirement, and that Congress nixed the required reading of the warnings when it passed an obscure law in 1968 that merely requires confessions to be "voluntary." Miranda supporters are particularly alarmed because, says Cohen, "the composition of the Supreme Court has changed dramatically since the Miranda ruling." He notes that "the high court has been quietly chipping away at defendants' rights for years." Several of today's more conservative Justices, some of whom are known to be hostile to Miranda...
...trio of dancers, Kimberlee Garris '01, Maiga Miranda '01 and Stefanie De Santis '00, danced to Melissa Etheridge's "Occasionally," a poignant, minimalist guitar-and-vocalist piece that Garris captured cloquently with personally expressive choreography. Jenny Weiss '99 (a co-director of Mainly Jazz) turned out equally excellent and thoroughly modern choreography for her piece. "Collision Course" which her group of dancers performed to the Talking Heads "Slippery People...
...international day of protest against Shell's involvement in Nigeria. Like Mr. Sachs and the 1995 council, we urge Harvard to join us in censure of Shell Oil by fully divesting itself of all Shell stock. BENJAMIN D. TOLCHIN '01, DANIEL M. HENNEFELD '99, DANIELLE C. SCHINDLER '98- '99, MIRANDA E. W. WORTHEN '01 Nov. 22, 1998 Benjamin D. Tolchin and Daniel M. Hennefeld are members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement Sterring Committee. Danielle C. Schindler is the co-president of the Environmental Action Committee. Miranda E. W. Worthen is the co-chair of the Alliance for Social Justice...
...climax, Hubbard arrests Devereaux for the torture and murder of Tariq Husseni, an American citizen, and reads the general his Miranda rights. "There's a swelling of music and you feel like that's what America stands for, the rights that he's reading, that apply even to this American Caesar, [played by] Bruce Willis," Bybee suggests. "[These rights] have become soaked into our culture, part of what we think of as the guarantees of American freedom and what we stand...