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...descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug suspect's garbage without a warrant. "There is a sense that what they're dealing with is the rights of drug dealers," says UCLA law professor Peter Arenella. "But they're dealing in all our rights...
...police made surprise apartment visits looking for unauthorized residents, many of them alleged drug dealers who had moved in with girlfriends. But some inspectors tended to treat tenants like students in a dormitory, demanding that visitors leave by midnight and nosing through drawers, in effect conducting searches without a warrant...
...court, which upheld the initiative but ruled that insurance companies are entitled to "a fair and reasonable" profit. Most of the state's insurance firms maintained that they should be exempted on those grounds. After reviewing their profit statements, Gillespie said she found only 13 companies profitable enough to warrant rate rollbacks. She announced hearings to examine the exemption claims of 34 more firms, but further outraged critics by declaring that evaluations of more than 200 other companies could take as long as ten years to complete...
...ambivalent. At his first FBI interrogation, on June 22, he not only surrendered his diplomatic passport, as he was required to do, but volunteered to give up his regular passport as well. He says he agreed to permit the FBI to search his car and apartment without a warrant and even reminded the agents to check the cellar storage space. But when Bloch and his wife Lou returned from a trip to New York City, they found a valuable chandelier cracked, the windows open and the air conditioning running. They submitted a bill to the FBI. To Bloch's great...
...chafes at hearing undergraduates speak of entering the "real world" once they leave school. "That is an expression of escapism," he writes. "It suggests that they were avoiding the real world all the time they were in school." He also argues that college freshmen, rather than graduate students, warrant special attention: "If more of our academic resources were spent on freshmen and sophomores, advanced undergraduates and graduate students would be far more able to study on their...