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Senior middle hitter Almaris Miranda paced the Sea Wolves with 18 kills...
...solo block by Hart tied the game at 11-11, and Harvard took the lead after the Sea Wolves' Miranda hit the ball out of bounds. A Hart ace closed out the first game for the Crimson, giving Harvard a thrilling 15-13 victory...
...Harvard rally, and the Crimson climbed back to score seven consecutive points, tying the game at 12-12. A Jellison kill from the right side of the net down the middle of the court gave Harvard a 13-12 lead, but after a long serve by Jellin and a Miranda kill, Stony Brook tied the game at 13-13. A block by the Sea Wolves' Alisse Gossett allowed Stony Brook to go up 14-13, but Harvard dominated the rest of the game...
...Court case, which found that a suspect couldn't be detained simply on the strength of an anonymous tip that he or she is carrying an illegal firearm. Also on Monday, the Clinton administration asked the Court to take up a case that could potentially overturn the so-called Miranda ruling, which demands that defendants be read their rights before they give statements to the police. The administration is alarmed over a potential challenge to Miranda, and wants to confront any erosion of civil liberties under its watch. "This is a pretty conservative court on the rights of the accused...
...allow police to search and detain whomever they please, as long as they say they received a tip that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after the Miranda decision - that said voluntarily given confessions are admissible evidence, even when the accused aren't read their rights. The law had never before been tested in court, but the Fourth District opined that Miranda was a ruling on procedure, and not a constitutional interpretation, and therefore need not be upheld...