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Some legal scholars worried about the court's direction in future cases. "Will it be limited to safety-sensitive positions or broadened to include any public employee who is a role model?" asked University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. Other experts doubted that the court would uphold random drug tests for a broad spectrum of Government employees. "The pattern of votes on the court suggests that as you get closer to mainstream workers, the number of dissenters picks up," observed Columbia University Law Professor Gerard Lynch...
...have a right to expect more from people sworn to uphold...
...Americans and as members of an academic community, we have the privilege of a long tradition of free speech and individual liberty. The abridgement of these rights by those booksellers who fail to uphold the very principles from which they profit is troubling. We applaud those stores with the courage to stand by the American people's right to read what they want to read and to judge for themselves what they believe...
...tradition. "As long as we're going to have Christmas as a national holiday," says Fordham University law professor Charles Whelan, "it makes sense to allow the display of a creche." But as Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi points out, there is a catch. "In order to uphold the use of religious symbols," he says, "you have to officially describe them as having a secular meaning." Such a redefinition, says James Andrews, chief executive of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), "amounts to the trivialization of the Christian faith...
...proposes to end poverty through economic growth rather than by taxing the rich. At the same time, she has made it clear that there will be no witch- hunts in the army if she is elected. Bhutto promises to maintain good relations with the U.S. and says she will uphold Pakistan's pledge to aid the mujahedin rebels in Afghanistan. Alliance candidates, for their part, intend to play on bad memories among Pakistanis of her father's administration, which ended in turmoil after the government allegedly rigged elections...