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...Dukakis is frugal to the point of cheapness. He has never made many friends; two school chums he did have were sacrificed to his career. In high school, Dukakis cared so little for peer approval that he went around scolding fellow students for not putting milk cartons into the trash bin. His yearbook calls him "Chief Big Brain-in- Face." He did not have his first date until the second half of his senior year. Sandy Cohen, the girl he wanted to take to his senior prom, went with one of his rivals, so he checked coats instead...
...students say they stay because the pay isgood, but there are sometimes added rewards fordorm crew workers. While most of the trash comingfrom the empty rooms consisted of crumpled paperand sheer dirt, dorm crew workers say theyoccasionally find "garbage" of value. And althoughdorm crew regulations say the discards should bethrown out, some workers keep or sell items thatare valuable...
...Supreme Court opens the household trash bag to warrantless police searches. -- And the Justices give doctors the antitrust jitters...
...declared Justice Byron White for the majority. Requiring police to seek warrants before searching such refuse would therefore be inappropriate, he wrote. Rubbish, responded Dissenters William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who predicted that "members of our society will be shocked" by the court's ruling. "Scrutiny of another's trash is contrary to commonly accepted notions of civilized behavior," they maintained. "A single bag of trash testifies eloquently to the eating, reading and recreational habits of the person who produced...
Police agencies readily admit that they can learn a lot about a person by examining household garbage. Both the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration regularly engage in trash searches, as do many police departments. "People throw away all kinds of things," observes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation. "Phone numbers, trace evidence, bank statements -- you'd be amazed." Most lower courts that have reviewed police trash searches have given them the green light, and now that the high bench has done the same, more detectives can be expected to prowl through refuse...