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Meanwhile, Champion held that the taxation of appreciations on securities and properties given the University would threaten funding most...
...free and open exchange of ideas would be insured by the activities of each citizen as a "searcher" for the truth. To some extent, every citizen would be part scholar and part journalist. When Popkin and the press claim that as investigators they are an "exceptional" occupational group, they threaten to make our failure to achieve these valid democratic goals the foundation of legal policy regarding testimony...
...merely expresses an inability to see beyond the status quo. In fact, the arguments of the press requrie the courts to search continually for a definition of "journalist" which would keep the class enjoying the journalist's privilege small--if, as the press claims, its privilege is not to threaten the grand jury system. But the distinction between journalist and non-journalist seems easy to make only by discriminating against the amateur reporter, the spare-time scholar and the inquiring citizen. Do we want to protect the journalists on "established" papers if that means saying that only writers for established...
...Kyoto bank, which had used yakuza to threaten and intimidate workers into going along with management in a labor dispute, almost went broke from mob shakedowns before it recently called on police for help. At a general stockholders' meeting of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries two years ago, a tough-looking platoon of men beat up a group of peace advocates who had bought shares in the company so that they could protest Mitsubishi's arms production. The men were known to be sokaiya, but no company official ever admitted inviting them. Indeed, it is possible that they had simply...
...said, however, that the financial difficulties do not immediately threaten the study because "the Russians are fully funded, and our component is small...