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Both provisions are amendments to defense authorization bills. The more workable and sensible Senate version is likely to prevail. Nevertheless, it gives to the military a far greater role than it wanted in drug interdiction. The Pentagon, eager to avoid the nasty work altogether, yielded to pressure . from the White House to accept it. One objection: law enforcement is traditionally a civilian function in a democracy. The military also contends that the costs would be high, the peripheral training from the new duties would not be relevant to preparing for war, and the Air Force does not have the right...
...ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that prevail in a courtroom: it is up to the accused to prove their innocence. "We have a rule in American jurisprudence that the penalty fits the crime," says Colleen O'Connor of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Confiscation of millions of dollars in property for a joint doesn...
...presenting a novel in which love prevails during a war, Marquez is posing a new political solution. In the novel, both the war and the love exist simultaneously, and there is love in the time of cholera. But one day the cholera, and the war, must end. By saying that the love can prevail, Marquez seems highly optimistic. It is possible that he is saying Latin Americans should concentrate on the positive and the eternal in their search for political peace and that they should avoid the cholera and the unpleasantness...
Judis provides useful insights into Buckley's conservative lineage. One early influence, Albert Jay Nock, an anarchist and enemy of mass culture, had visions of an intellectual elite he called the Remnant. Another, Yale Political Scientist Willmoore Kendall, argued that the interests of the majority should always prevail over individual rights. A loathing of the left had already been passed on to Buckley by his father Will, a Texas-born oilman who made a fortune in Mexico, only to have most of his property there seized in the years after the 1910 revolution...
Enjoining argument over the Thernstrom incident would have implied acceptance of the agreement on which all discussion depends: that the best case should prevail. That would matter not just for Thernstrom, this time. It would establish a precedent by which to judge other professors, other times. And so Kilson had as little to say as his colleagues...