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...tighter restrictions are needed. The alternative, they say, is a frightening drift toward an Orwellian society in which Big Brother is always watching. Says Jerry Berman, director of the Project on Privacy and Technology of the American Civil Liberties Union: "If you have a surveillance system looking over a wide range of activities, the message is clear: don't deviate. That means don't cheat on your taxes -- which is good. But it also means don't dissent." The danger, though not new, is intensified. As useful as computers are, the increasing pressure they put on personal privacy could threaten...
Another recent decision has raised questions about the social vulnerability of high-risk AIDS groups. Last year the court ruled that state sodomy laws -- which have been around since 1662 -- do not unconstitutionally invade individual privacy. Notes Attorney Gostin: "The decision left the door wide open to states which already have an irrational prejudice against gays and are hysterical about AIDS to introduce more coercive measures against homosexuals." Some observers even foresee attempts to control fertility in black and Hispanic communities where intravenous-drug abuse and AIDS are rampant. "I am certain there will be a lot of calls...
...ideal of fairness is one that few Americans would quarrel with. A tougher constitutional question, however, is whether such fairness ought to be mandated by the Government or whether that violates a broadcaster's First Amendment rights. In early June the House and Senate, by wide margins, passed a measure that would codify the fairness doctrine into statute law. But the bill was vetoed by President Reagan, who called the doctrine "antagonistic to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment." Efforts to override the veto were abandoned last week, and the deregulation-minded FCC may soon be free...
Stuart was not the only artist to profit from the emerging cult of Washington. After 1799, the imagery of the pater patriae as hero and then as demigod was being manufactured far and wide for the American market. Even Chinese painters produced touchingly naive apotheoses of Washington borne up ! to heaven on billowing clouds, rising through a shaft of light and surrounded with angels and grieving personifications of the young Republic, like a baroque saint...
Presidents have still managed to push many wide-ranging programs through Congress. But the regular spectacle of legislative deadlock has given life to a venerable critique of American Government that favors some of the mechanisms and party discipline of parliamentary rule. Under such a system, the winning party's leader becomes Prime Minister and thus almost always commands a majority in Parliament to support his programs. Recently a five-year-old citizens' group called the Committee on the Constitutional System, headed by Washington Lawyer Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas...