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Neither the Constitution nor the College makes any absolute guarantee of free speech. Like the Supreme Court, the College strives to balance conflicting individual rights. In the case of the Stars and Bars, the obligation of the College to forbid the harassment of some of its members overrides any absolute interpretation of the First Amendment...
Valerie Martin's grafting of a new novel onto Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is cleverly done. But the best part of this engaging novel is the diarist herself. Spunky, passionate within the grinding limitations imposed by her station in life, Mary observes her employer's deterioration with a mixture of bafflement and good common sense. Why is this privileged gent making his life so miserable? If Dr. Jekyll had simply listened to Mary, unpleasant Mr. Hyde would have been cajoled right out of existence...
...does, Greene can edit the tape. Still, the Justice Department's refusal to permit use of some classified documents in the trial could eventually require Greene to dismiss the charges against Poindexter, an outcome also possible if Reagan wins his fight to withhold the diary. In either case, all parties involved in the tangled legal situation -- except independent counsel Lawrence Walsh -- presumably would be pleased...
...some ways Reagan's position is weaker than Nixon's. Judge Greene observed that a former President has less standing to claim Executive privilege than the one in office, implying that Reagan would have a much stronger case if George Bush joined him in asking that the diary excerpts be suppressed. So far, Bush has not, and for an obvious reason: it might appear that he and Reagan both have something to hide about their Iran-contra roles...
...president, Karl Otto Pohl, and his cohort are still wrestling with an unfinished European Monetary System, involving commitments to support newcomers like the Greek drachma and the Portuguese escudo. But those countries, whatever their problems, are going concerns, while East Germany, whatever its potential, is nearly a basket case...