Word: protectable
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...Kingston, Jamaica, the airport was mobbed by 2,000 members of a minority Negro cult called the Rastafarians, who worship Selassie as God and want the Jamaican government to send them "home" to Ethiopia. Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante, 82, has discouraged such repatriation, saying wryly: "We must protect them. They would just get out there in the jungle and be trampled by elephants and eaten by the lions." Undiscouraged, the Rastas showed up at the airport waving placards reading "Hail to the Lord Anointed" and chanting "Selassie is Christ" and "Welcome to our God and King." Somewhat taken aback...
...hurling a constitutional thunderbolt at the most basic U.S. police method of solving crimes: questioning suspects and extracting confessions. For decades, that system has thrived on the fact that most people are not aware of their constitutional right to silence. By holding that suspects may need lawyers to protect that right not merely in court but in the police station, the court's decision in Escobedo v. Illinois posed a cop's nightmare-no more confessions...
...written in the 18th century when there were no police forces. At the time, the trial itself was the critical confrontation between the state and the accused. Mindful of the British Star Chamber, the Constitution's framers ringed American trials with safeguards-almost none of which serve to protect the suspect from the time he is picked up by the police until days or even weeks later, when he appears before a judge...
Matter of Conscience. The Index is a product of the Council of Trent's counter-reforming zeal to protect Catholics against Protestant error. The first Index was published in 1559; it gradually grew into an impressive reader's non-guide to literature that might endanger faith or morals. By the 18th century, it was something of a sign of excellence to be listed; among the condemned classics of the Index are Montaigne's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the works of Descartes, Hume, Hobbes and Voltaire...
Editor's Note--What follows is the true story of some elusive happenings recent but fading Harvard members. To protect the guilty, names of all but the hero remain shrouded...