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...THERE is something even more troubling about this, the latest in a series of decisions which have supported the Reagan Administration's rightist conception of law. This is the method by which the six justices in the majority decided their position--cost benefit analysis. In effect, the justices subjected indivisible individual rights to a social calculus, whereby they measured whether the gain from convicting more criminals outweighed the relative loss of an individual's right to privacy. Justice Byron White was quite explicit on this point: "Because we find that the [exclusionary] rule can have no substantial deterrent effect...
...innovative method nearby Malden used to study many of the problems facing the city is an example of building academic theory by immersing a study in a practical situation, according to MIT professor Lawrence E. Susskind, who heads up the Public Disputes Program of the Law School-based Program on Negotiation...
...Malden project was an example of Susskind's philosophy at work. In Malden, Susskind and his team helped the city study its problems with what is known as a Negotiated Investment Strategy (NIS). Such a method uses negotiating teams representing many different sides of a dispute or problem to work together instead of calling in an outside consultant or relying on an administrative decision...
...says he had been looking for ways to improve the method and was looking for a test case when Fallon approached him. However, Susskind and his aides emphasize that they were not attempting to solve Malden's problems for the city, but they were merely showing the people there how to do it themselves...
...overpopulation in the Third World, federal law bans the use of U.S. funds to finance abortions overseas. The Reagan Administration is now considering an even more stringent policy: withholding family-planning assistance from any population-control program funded by governments or private organizations that sanction abortion as a method of birth control. The plan was hailed by pro-life groups, but it has perplexed foreign aid experts, State Department officials and population control groups...