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...equal protection. In only the most upsetting of recent string of decisions, the court ruled in Whren v . U.S. that the police were not out of line when they used a minor crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia held that when a police officer actually arrests a driver for a traffic violation and then searches the vehicle, a Fourth Amendment-based motion to suppress evidence of other crimes will not prevail even if--based on an objective standard--police officers...
...gets stopped all the time: "I'm a big kid, tall," he says. "I get kind of nervous that every time I reach for my ID, there's a possibility that I might die." And in minority neighborhoods across the U.S., there's a good deal of ingrained suspicion. Says Ebony Garcia Williams, 17, a junior at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach: "Little kids from five and six years old learn to hate the cops because they see what goes on in the community." No matter how many parental lectures are given or workshops held, it will take a long time...
...possible answer "Learning, remembering, or concentrating," such choices do not accurately describe my own peculiar set of chronic impairments, which go back 30 years. My inordinate fear of male clowns, for example, especially those with heavy rouge on their cheeks that only partly conceals their stubble. Or my nagging suspicion that some short-order cooks really do blow their nose in the soup, and far more often than their customers realize. Also, I have a habit, in public rest rooms, of drying my hands on the inside of my shirt rather than using those wall-mounted dryers, which...
Unfortunately for the FDA, this week's hardships are not unique. The agency is under enormous pressure from Congress and the public, says Gorman. "The FDA is expected to perform incredibly quickly - but not so quickly that they arouse suspicion," she says. They are also chronically understaffed and underfunded, she adds. So while the public's first instinct may be to blame the FDA for the apparent weaknesses in its approval process, perhaps the scrutiny would be better directed toward the congressional leaders holding the purse strings - and the means to more thorough regulation...
...helped produce a sympathetic package that could go a long way toward softening their image. She points out that the couple showed up to meet her without an attorney. "I have never done an interview with someone--not that I can remember--who was under the umbrella of suspicion without a lawyer present." And Walters has interviewed a long list of suspected lowlifes: Claus von Bulow, Imelda Marcos, Michael Milken. Says Walters: "Even Monica had a lawyer...