Word: professor
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...Congress used a sledgehammer when it should have used a scalpel," explained Columbia University Law Professor Vincent Blasi. "It's difficult enough to define obscenity, but indecency is entirely in the eye of the beholder." Conservative Republican Senator Jesse Helms called the maintenance of the ban on obscene messages a "major victory for our children" but otherwise decried the ruling. "How many ruined lives will it take before the court and society realize the devastation that can result from dial-a-porn?" he asked...
...depend on the whim of law-enforcement officials. "No one who has law school loans, a mortgage to pay and kids to feed can afford to practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Noted University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "The decisions will chill a lot of lawyers' interest in representing defendants in the very type of complex criminal cases where astute and experienced counsel are most needed...
Death-row inmates fared no better than drug dealers and racketeers. By a 5- to-4 vote, the Justices held that states do not have to provide free attorneys to such criminals seeking to challenge their convictions after losing their initial direct appeals. Observed law professor Franklin Zimring of the University of California, Berkeley: "The problem of sufficient due process when it comes to the death penalty is insoluble. You either finance the endless relitigation of these cases, or you discriminate against the poor." Two other major capital-punishment decisions are expected this week, along with the anxiously awaited ruling...
...person who holds it stands as a living example of what they think poetry should be," said William Alfred, Harvard's Lowell professor of the humanities and a colleague of Heany...
...some ways a measure of how many people know about your work," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan professor of English and American literature and language. The selection process also ensures that the professor of poetry be someone with appeal outside the academic community, she said...