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Michael L. Wechsler '89 and Kris Kobach '88 say that if the guard yells at them, they get off their bikes until he or she walks away, then they remount the bikes and continue their contest...
Kobach and Wechsler are not alone. Most Harvard bicyclists agree that the ban on biking in the Yard is one of the most frequently broken Harvard prohibitions...
...replies Columbia University Law Professor Herbert Wechsler, one of the nation's foremost experts on federal-state relations. The San Antonio decision, he says, merely returns the high court to a position that it has held for 50 years. Wechsler argues that the 1976 decision was a "fluke" that the legal system is well rid of. "The Constitution gives Congress the power, without any qualifications, to regulate interstate commerce," the professor notes, "and this is interstate commerce" because the wages and hours of public employees, along with many other local government activities, affect the national economy...
...even Wechsler admits that the "vacillating" of the court on the issue hurts the bench's image. Former Reagan Justice Department Lawyer Bruce Fein has a harsher assessment: "This reinforces the notion that this court is without a head." The Burger Court has long been pushed and pulled by an unpredictable, shifting center. During his 14 years on the court, Blackmun, 76, has voted with the court's conservatives on many criminal-justice issues but frequently sided with the liberals on other questions. Some observers see the San Antonio reversal as the latest assertion of independence by a Justice once...
DIED. James Wechsler, 67, liberal columnist and former editor of the New York Post; of cancer; in New York City. Wechsler was one of the first major journalists to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt tactics in the early 1950s. His signed columns (1961-83) often rang with moral indignation on behalf of the disadvantaged...