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Putting out the garbage is one of life's duller necessities. Last week that boring chore became a bit riskier. By a 6-to-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police may freely rummage through ordinary household trash left at curbside without obtaining a search warrant. The decision was welcomed by the law-enforcement community, which has learned that garbage contains a lot of incriminating ingredients, but it upset civil libertarians. They read the opinion as a tightening of the judicial noose around the already embattled right of personal privacy...
...much sense for someone who is a defendant in a civil rights case to stand up and tell a racist joke," said Douglas Louison, the lawyer representing the officers in their suit. Louison said that while telling the joke "doesn't rise to a violation" of Constitutional rights or warrant additional charges, the incident suggests a lack of "sensitivity" on Paolillo's part...
Granted, the Division I-AA playoff process--four games over five weeks--is grueling. But if the Ivy League has a team capable of being the Division I-AA champion (and this would be rare enough to warrant a parade in each Ivy city), that team should be given the chance to prove itself...
Therefore, the so-called political nature of the Class Gift is not inherent but contrived, through the formation of E4D itself. E4D's assumption that one less dollar in the College operating fund corresponds to a like decrease in the endowment does not warrant the inverted conclusion that a senior's gift to the College is an explicit expression of approval for the endowment. Each senior's gift to Harvard-Radcliffe is important and valid in itself, as a direct contribution to the school, beyond the political concerns surrounding the endowment. This is the unifying quality of the Senior Gift...
...program's creators stress that it is not a trial but a "commission of inquiry," intended to determine whether there is enough evidence to warrant bringing charges. Presenting the prosecution case is Allan A. Ryan Jr., once the chief Nazi hunter for the U.S. Justice Department; challenging the evidence is Lord Rawlinson, a former British Attorney-General. The international panel of judges -- including Shirley Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education -- will consider five specific charges against Waldheim. The verdict will not be taped until just prior to the show's telecast...