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Mallory's apartment has four rooms, but he rents out the front room to a Puerto Rican mother and two children. If that family wants to use the kitchen, or the bathroom at the far end of the kitchen, they must ask Mallory's permission. On the bathroom door Mallory has posted a sign: DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. Of the two other rooms, one belongs to Michael and Michael's mother Eileen. The other is Mallory's bedroom, nearly filled by a low queen-size bed with an upholstered maroon headboard into which a clock...
...know that kid, Davey, that lady's son. I mean, I don't really know him, but I saw him last week after some Puerto Rican kids stole his jacket. It was a new leather jacket. They held a gun to his head. I saw him in the subway, and I gave him a hug. I didn't like him or anything. I just wanted to show him that not all Puerto Ricans were like that...
...with speech that responds." Undaunted, the A.M.A. will soon begin drafting model legislation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court could signal its current thinking on the subject of ad bans in the next few months. The high bench is expected to rule on a First Amendment challenge to a Puerto Rican law that bans local advertising by the island's legal gambling casinos...
...working on a story about a secret jail where political prisoners were said to be tortured. In a deliberate effort to break the system, Schmidt, then an investigative reporter for San Jose's English language Tico Times and for the Spanish language daily La Prensa Libre, challenged the Costa Rican colegio at a San Jose meeting of the Inter- American Press Association (IAPA) in 1980. "I'm covering this meeting illegally," he announced. "Let me work or sue me." The colegio responded to the dare, and a criminal suit followed. At his first trial in 1983, Schmidt was acquitted...
...course I did not return," Schmidt snapped. "I didn't want a pardon." What he wanted was a test before the human rights tribunal. He got it after the IAPA persuaded Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez to petition the human rights court for a ruling. Schmidt triumphed, thanks in part to a number of amicus briefs filed on behalf of groups that support freedom of the press, including one by noted Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks and another by Floyd Abrams, one of the U.S.'s foremost experts on press freedom. Nonetheless, President Monge has pointed out, "the opinion...