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...Dershowitz said the bill is a "fairly decent compromise" because "the majority of Americans support no civil liberties for criminals...
...Allen M. Dershowitz, professor of Law and an adviser to Kennedy on the bill for two years, said yesterday he is "ambivalent" about the bill in its present form...
...Dershowitz said he objects to provisions of the bill introduced on the Senate floor, but is "confident" some of the worst provisions will be changed in the House of Representatives. Dershowitz said he believes it will be significantly improved in its final form...
...handed down a decision that would partly satisfy most people and strongly dissatisfy only a few. It was an exercise in judicial pragmatism in the tradition of a politically aware, not overly ideological court. The decision is an "act of judicial statesmanship," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "The decision will go down in history not for what it did but for what it didn't do." Added his colleague Paul Freund: "The very fact that it is somewhat fuzzy leaves room for development, and on the whole that's a good thing...
...Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday he disapproves of the decision, but said he could understand the Supreme Court's reasoning. "It is arbitrary, but justified; there are only a limited number of airways for radio and T.V. communication, whereas there is theoretically an unlimited supply of newspapers...